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Affiliation | Republican |
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Name | James W. Hanna |
Address | Cortez, Colorado , United States |
Email | None |
Website | None |
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April 00, 1844
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Died | July 23, 1910
(66 years)
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Contributor | BrentinCO |
Last Modifed | BrentinCO May 19, 2018 10:53pm |
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Info | James Hanna was born in Cadiz, Ohio in April of 1844. He graduated from Cadiz High School in 1861 and attended Oberlin College. He then served in the Civil War as a member of the Tenth Pennsylvania Regiment and later as a captain for the Eleventh Ohio Cavalry. During the war, Hanna’s company, under the command of Colonel William Collins, was sent to establish a post in the Territory of Colorado. The fort, later known as Fort Collins, was abandoned as a military post in 1866, and Hanna was discharged as a major. He chose to settle in the nearby town of La Porte and became one of the town’s first merchants.
Hanna then moved to southern Colorado and is considered to be a founder of Cortez. He was a leading developer of the Montezuma Canal, which routed water from the Dolores River to irrigate the Montezuma Valley for agricultural development.
Hanna was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 1890 and became Speaker in 1891. He held the position of Speaker for approximately ten days. A majority of the House members disagreed with the committee assignments he made. His refusal to alter these assignments led to the selection of JesseWhite as the Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives for the remainder of the 1891-1892 biennium. Due to the unusual circumstances surrounding the election of White, an interrogatory was submitted to the Colorado Supreme Court. After his term in the House, Hanna was involved with various mining and irrigation interests until his death in Denver on July 23, 1910.
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