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The poor record Sherman posted prior to his departure from office in 1898 led to attacks on Hanna suggesting that a senile man had been placed in a key Cabinet position to accommodate him. Nevertheless pro-war elements prominently including the Hearst newspapers pressured McKinley for a more aggressive foreign policy. His family moved to the growing city of Cleveland in his teenage years where he attended high school with John D.
Declining a Cabinet position Hanna secured appointment as senator from Ohio after Sherman was made Secretary of State; he was re-elected by the Ohio General Assembly in 1898 and 1904. Hanna was born in New Lisbon (today Lisbon) Ohio in 1837. Rockefeller.