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6-29 Major changes by RJensen, some of which are based on copyright material for which Jensen holds the copyright.

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I believe there's a mistake about Mark Hanna, the political strategist, and the congressional medal of honor and it's repeated across the internet.

http://www.lighthousedepot.com/ALF/capeelizabeth.html

There are 2 Marcus Hannas. The one in the link above was a lighthouse keeper in Maine in the 1880's...something the other Hanna obviously couldn't have been doing who had been both a medal of honor winner and who had as lighthouse keeper saved several people.

Note that the Ohio, Mark Hanna's biography mentions brief service in the civil war and never specifies what he alleged did to win the congressional medal of honor. I guess someone needs to consult a real historian....but awarding the guy the medal 1895 30 years after the war would certainly have been politically controversial given who he was. I can't find any evidence that there was any dispute or controversy about a high level republican being awarded the Medal of Honor under the democratic president Grover Cleveland...

www.chancelucky.blogspot.com for my webpage

[edit] Modern campaign

This is one of several claimants to the title of first modern campaign. It differs in degree, not in kind, from earlier campaigns; it differs equally from modern campaigns. For one thing, the tradition of "Aw shucks, I'm not running for office; my friends are too kind" was still retained.

Both wording here, as "first modern" and "forerunner", really need a source, and a real explanation. In fact, the only use of sources since 1922 seems to be in two sentences, one about who Hanna went to high school with, and one about Hanna as corporatist; in which our text is weasel-worded, and the quote in the footnote is not. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 02:27, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Birthplace

Should his birthplace of Lisbon, Ohio be mentioned?

[edit] unreferenced statements

"Expected to run" against Roosevelt is oversimplified at best. Hanna knew he was too old and ill to be president but allowed some of the support for him to go on just as a means of rallying power. ("Theodore Rex" is an excellent source on this and has some great cross reference in the back). The Rove admiration thing is completely unsourced, I'd be surprised if he were so...forthcoming of his admiration of an "Old Guard" republican like Hanna who supported the Protective Tariff among other policies that I'd think would give Rove pause to actually state support seriously... That might be something you say at the gridiron club as a joke. Reboot (talk) 10:44, 13 January 2008 (UTC)