Marcus Alonzo Hanna was an American businessman and Republican politician who served as a United States Senator from Ohio as well as chairman of the Republican National Committee. A friend and politic
Portrait, 1896
Before McKinley, Hanna tried to make John Sherman president.
Joseph Benson Foraker was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the 37th governor of Ohio from 1886 to 1890 and as a United States senator from Ohio from 1897 until 1909.
Foraker c. 1903
An 1885 political cartoon accuses U.S. senator John Sherman (right) and Foraker of "waving the bloody shirt" of the Civil War for political gain
Foraker's card in the Duke Tobacco Company's 1888 "Presidential Possibilities" series
Foraker married Julia Ann Paine Bundy in 1870