Editing Mark Hanna (section)

==== Re-election, rumors of a presidential run, and death ====
[[File:Satterfield cartoon about Mark Hanna hiding from a presidential candidacy.jpg|thumb|left|220px|January 1904 political cartoon depicting Hanna hiding from presidential candidacy]]
At the 1903 Ohio Republican convention, Foraker filed a resolution to endorse Roosevelt for re-election.  This would normally have been introduced at the 1904 convention, but Foraker hoped to use the resolution to take control of the Ohio party from Hanna.  The resolution placed Hanna in a difficult position:  if he supported it, he proclaimed he would not run for president; if he opposed it, he risked Roosevelt's wrath.  Hanna wired Roosevelt, who was on a western trip, that he intended to oppose it and would explain all when both men were in Washington.  Roosevelt responded that while he had not requested support from anyone, those friendly to  his administration would naturally vote for such a statement.  Hanna resignedly supported the resolution.{{sfn|Morris|pp=232–233}}

The 1903 convention also endorsed Hanna for re-election to the Senate, and nominated Hanna's friend [[Myron Herrick]] for governor.  The Foraker faction was allowed the nomination for lieutenant governor, given to [[Warren G. Harding]], who later became president.  Hanna campaigned for several weeks for the Republicans in Ohio, and was rewarded with an overwhelming Republican victory.  With no drama, Hanna was re-elected in January 1904 for the term 1905–1911 by a legislative vote of 115–25, a much larger margin than Foraker had received in 1902.{{sfn|Croly|p=433}}
[[File:Mark Hanna cph.3a02233.jpg|thumb|upright=0.95|A photo of Senator Hanna taken roughly a year before his death.]]
Despite the differences between the two men, Roosevelt in November 1903 asked Hanna to run his re-election campaign.  Hanna saw this as an unsubtle attempt by the President to ensure that Hanna would not oppose him, and was slow to respond to his request.  In the interim, he allowed talk of a Hanna for president campaign to continue, although he did not plan to run.{{sfn|Morris|p=299}}  Financier [[J. P. Morgan]], who disliked Roosevelt's policies, offered to finance the Hanna presidential campaign when he hosted the Hannas at [[Thanksgiving]], though the senator remained silent at the offer.{{sfn|Morris|pp=299–300}}  In December, Hanna and Roosevelt had a lengthy meeting and resolved many of their differences.  Roosevelt agreed that Hanna would not have to serve another term as chairman of the Republican National Committee.  This in theory freed Hanna to run for president, but Roosevelt could see that Hanna was an exhausted man and would not run.{{sfn|Morris|p=300}}

On January 30, 1904, Hanna attended the [[Gridiron Club]] dinner at the Arlington Hotel.  He neither ate nor drank, and when asked how his health was, responded "Not good."{{sfn|Morris|p=309}}  He never again left his Washington residence,{{sfn|Morris|p=309}} having fallen ill with [[typhoid fever]].{{sfn|Croly|p=454}}  As the days passed, politicians began to wait in the Arlington lobby, close to Hanna's house, for news; a letter from the President, "May you soon be with us, old fellow, as strong in body and as vigorous in your leadership as ever" was never read by the recipient.{{sfn|Morris|p=311}}  Hanna drifted in and out of consciousness for several days; on the morning of February 15, his heart began to fail.  Roosevelt visited at 3&nbsp;pm, unseen by the dying man.  At 6:30&nbsp;pm, Senator Hanna died, and the crowd of congressional colleagues, government officials, and diplomats who had gathered in the lobby of the Arlington left the hotel, many sobbing.  Roosevelt biographer [[Edmund Morris (writer)|Edmund Morris]] noted Hanna's achievement in industry and in politics, "He had not done badly in either field; he had made seven million dollars, and a President of the United States."{{sfn|Morris|p=311}}