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Iona T. Hanna was elected to a school board in Denver, Colorado, in 1893. Some sources indicate that Denver women banded together to elect Hanna to the position. Hanna was an active suffragist. She ran for State Superintendent of Public Instruction on the (McKinley) Republican ticket in Colorado in 1896. Hanna lost to another woman candidate, Grace Espy Patton (Silver Republican and Democrat) Hanna was a graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio, where she was influenced by visiting abolitionists and other reformers. Governor John Routt appointed her a member of the State Board of Control of the Industrial Home and School for Girls.
