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Frank Hanly

Frank Hanly (4 April 1863-1 August 1920) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-IN 9) from 4 March 1895 to 3 March 1897 (succeeding Daniel W. Waugh and preceding Charles B. Landis) and Governor of Indiana from 9 January 1905 to 11 January 1909 (succeeding Winfield T. Durbin and preceding Thomas R. Marshall).

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Frank Hanly was born in St. Joseph, Illinois in 1863, and he was raised on a farm in Homer before becoming a teacher in Warren County and a lawyer in Williamsport, Indiana. Hanly served in the state senate from 1890 to 1891, in the US House of Representatives from 1895 to 1897, and as Governor from 1905 to 1909, and he crusaded against liquor, horse racing, political corruption, and embezzlement. He also adopted the state's first eugenics law in 1907; the law was found unconstitutional in 1921. He joined the Prohibition Party on leaving office and staged campaigns to promote temperance in both America and France, and he died in an automobile-train accident in Ohio in 1920 while on a lecture tour.

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