Hanna, Edward (Joseph) (1860-1944)

US Catholic prelate. Following his studies and ordination in Rome, Italy, he taught classics and theology, before being named named auxiliary bishop (1912) and then bishop (1915) of San Francisco, California. He also served (from 1917) as a spokesperson for the Catholic War Council, and (from 1919) as a leader of its successor, the National Catholic Welfare Council (later Conference). A progressive attacked by some Catholics for his ‘Americanism’, he stressed interfaith cooperation and helped settle a major longshoreman's strike in 1934. Hanna was born in Rochester, New York. He retired in 1935 and moved to Rome.