# Senator Hanna — An Autobiography character guide

> Senator Hanna in An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Senator Hanna, The Senator

**First appearance:** 0016-x-the-presidency-making-an-old-party-progressive

## Snapshot

The Republican kingmaker whose machine politics and wary judgment of Roosevelt shaped the contests that carried the younger man from Albany toward Washington.

## Who they are

Hanna is the seasoned organization man, master of patronage and convention arithmetic, who views Roosevelt with a mixture of admiration and unease. Their relationship is one of practical alliance shot through with mutual suspicion, each needing the other while distrusting the other's instincts. His presence in the narrative marks the moment when Roosevelt must learn to work within, and sometimes against, the party machinery that made him.

## In the story

### [Practical Politics](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_autobiography_se/chapters/iii-practical-politics)

Referenced as a boss involved in the Speakership contest.

### [Social and Industrial Justice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_autobiography_se/chapters/xiii-social-and-industrial-justice)

Mentioned in the context of political maneuvering around labor legislation.

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