Frank Hanly
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| James Franklin Hanly | |
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| In office 1890 – 1891 |
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| In office March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897 |
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| Preceded by | Daniel W. Waugh |
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| Succeeded by | Charles B. Landis |
| Constituency | Indiana's 9th District |
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26th Governor of Indiana
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| In office March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897 |
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| Preceded by | Winfield T. Durbin |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Riley Marshall |
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| Born | April 4, 1863 St. Joseph, Illinois |
| Died | August 1, 1920 Dennison, Ohio |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Eva Augusta Rachel Simmer[1] |
| Religion | Methodist[2] |
James Franklin Hanly (April 4, 1863 – August 1, 1920) was a United States politician who served as the 26th Governor of Indiana from 1905 to 1909.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Hanly was born in a log cabin near St. Joseph, Champaign County, Illinois. As a young man he also lived for a while on a farm in the nearby village of Homer. In Homer he attended the Liberty rural school where he became know as a formidable debater. He attended the common schools and the Eastern Illinois Normal School at Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois, from 1879 to 1881. He later moved to Warren County, Indiana where he taught in the state public schools from 1881 to 1889.
Hanly studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1889. He began practice in Williamsport, Indiana.
[edit] Political career
He was elected as a member of the Indiana State Senate in 1890 and 1891, as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress, serving from March 4, 1895 to March 3, 1897, but was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1896.
Hanly was elected Governor of Indiana serving from January 9, 1905 until January 11, 1909. As governor, he crusaded against liquor, horse-racing and political corruption even prosecuting members of his own administration for embezzlement. In 1907, he signed the Compulsory Sterilization Law, which mandated the sterilization of certain individuals in state custody, making Indiana the first state to adopt eugenics legislation. Governor Thomas R. Marshall ordered the practice stopped in 1909. In 1921, the Indiana Supreme Court found the law unconstitutional.[3]
Hanly was a prohibition lecturer throughout the United States from 1910 to 1920 and in France in 1919. He organized the Flying Squadron of America (sometimes called Hanly's Flying Squadron), a temperance organization that staged a nationwide campaign to promote temperance. It consisted of three groups of revivalist-like speakers who toured cities across the country between September 30, 1914 and June 6, 1915.[2]
Hanly was an unsuccessful candidate of the Prohibition Party for President of the United States in the 1916 election where he garnered 221,030 votes, or about 1.2%. It has been alleged that his reason for promoting Prohibition is because his father was an alcoholic.
In April 1920 Hanly argued the case of Hawke v. Smith, a challenge to the Eighteenth Amendment, before the United States Supreme Court. Hanly won a unanimous decision issued on June 1, 1920, upholding prohibition.
[edit] Death
He died as the result of an automobile-train accident near Dennison, Ohio in 1920. He is interred at Hillside Cemetery, near Williamsport, Indiana.
[edit] See also
- Flying Squadron Also known as "Hanly's Flying Squadron."
- Temperance movement
- Temperance organizations
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Biography from Indiana Historical Bureau
- Congressional biography
- Indiana County History - Hanly Biography
- National Governors Association Biography
- Details of Hawke v. Smith
| Preceded by Winfield T. Durbin |
Governor of Indiana January 9, 1905 – January 11, 1909 |
Succeeded by Thomas Riley Marshall |
| Preceded by Daniel W. Waugh |
U.S. Congressman, Indiana 9th District 1895-1897 |
Succeeded by Charles B. Landis |
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