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Rh eral in 1777. He succeeded Gen. John Stark in command at Albany in 1778, and soon afterward served with Gen. John Sullivan in his expedition against the Indians of the Six Nations in central New York. The command of one of the two bri- gades of the light-infantry corps was assigned him in August, 1780, and near the close of the war he succeeded Alexander Scammell as adjutant-general. He was a member of congress in 1784-'5, a signer of the Pennsylvania constitution of 1790, and occu- pied many local offices of public trust. In 1798, in anticipation of a war with France, Gen. Wash- ington recommended Gen. Hand's appointment as adjutant-general. He was of fine and manly appear- ance, and distinguished in the army for his fine horsemanship. Although he was of a daring dis- position, he won the affection of his troops by his amiability and gentleness.

HANDLEY, George, governor of Georgia, b. near Sheffield, England, 9 Feb., 1752: d. in Rae's Hall, Ga., 17 Sept., 1793. He arrived in Savannah in May, 1775, joined the Georgia continental bat- tery as captain in 1776, and rose to be lieutenant- colonel. He was actively engaged in South Caro- lina and Georgia during the Revolution, and was captured at Augusta and sent to Charleston as a prisoner of war. He was afterward sheriff of Rich- mond county, often a member of the legislature, and in 1787 was inspector-general. He was elected governor of the state in 1788, and from August, 1789, till his death, was collector of the port of Brunswick. He was also a commissioner to the proposed state of Frankland about 1785.

HANDY, Alexander Hamilton, jurist, b. in Princess Anne, Somerset co., Md., 25 Dec, 1809; d. in Canton, Miss., 12 Sept., 1883. After being admitted to the bar, he removed to Mississippi in 1836, and was a judge of the high court of errors from 1853 till 1867, when he resigned. He then removed to Baltimore, Md., and practised his pro- fession there, also holding the chair of law in the University of Maryland till 1871, when he returned to Mississippi. Judge Handy was an active advo- cate of secession. In 1860 he was appointed a commissioner to Maryland by the governor of Mis- sissippi, but failed to obtain a hearing from the legislature. On 19 Dec, 1860, in a speech in Bal- timore, he declared that secession was only a tem- porary measure, and was " not intended to break up the present government, but to perpetuate it." Judge Handy's decisions form a large part of volumes 26-41 of the " Mississippi Reports." He published a pamphlet entitled " Secession Con- sidered as a Right " (1862), and a " Parallel between the Reign of James the Second, of England, and that of Abraham Lincoln."

HANGER, George (Lord Coleraine), English soldier, b. in 1750 : d. in London, 31 March, 1824. He was the younger son of a noble family, and was educated for the army. He served through the American Revolution, became a major in Tarle- ton's legion, and was wounded in an action with Maj. W. R. Davie's dragoons at Charlotte, N. C., where his corps was roughly handled. Hanger's reputation in America was that of a sensualist. He was a boon companion of George IV., and, on succeeding to his title in 1814, refused to assume it. He published a reply to Lieut. Roderick Mac- kenzie's " Strictures on Col. Banaster Tarleton's History of the Southern Campaigns of 1780 and 1781 " (1789), and other tracts on military subjects, his own " Life, Adventures, and Opinions," with a portrait of himself hanging by the neck (London, 1801) ; and " Lives, Adventures, and Sharping Tricks of Eminent Gamesters " (1804).

HANNA, Robert, senator, b. in Laurens dis- trict, S. C, 6 April, 1786 ; d. in Indianapolis, Ind., 19 Nov., 1858. He removed with his parents to Indiana, and in 1802 settled in Brookfield in that state. He was sheriff of the eastern district from 1809 till the organization of a state government, a member of the Indiana constitutional convention of 1816, and register of the land-office, general of militia, and for many years a member of the legis- lature. He removed to Indianapolis in 1825, was appointed to the U. S. senate to fill a vacancy, serving from 5 Dec. of that year till 3 Jan., 1832, and was afterward a member of the state senate. He was killed by a railroad-train while he was walking on the track at Indianapolis.

HANNA, William Brantly, jurist, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 23 Nov., 1835. He was graduated in 1853 from the Central high-school of Philadelphia, studied law with his father and in the University of Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the Tsar in 1857. He was assistant district attorney of Philadelphia for several years, and from 1867 till 1874 served in the councils of the city. In 1872 he was elected a member of the Constitutional convention of the state, in which body he served until its adjournment. In 1874 he was elected one of the three first judges of the orphans' court of Philadelphia, which had been established under the new constitution, and in 1878 was commissioned to be the first president judge of this court. In 1884, as the candidate of both the Republican and Democratic parties, he was re-elected to this office for a term of ten years by a practically unanimous vote. He is president of the corporation of the Hahnemann medical college and hospital of Philadelphia, and was for some years president of the trustees of the Baptist orphanage. In June, 1885, Bucknell university, at Lewisburg, Pa., conferred upon him the degree of D. C. L.

HANNAY, James, Canadian author, b. in Richibucto, New Brunswick, in 1842. After engaging in journalism for a time, he studied law, and was admitted to the bar of New Brunswick in 1867. His works include " The Captivity of John Gyles " (1875) ; " History of Acadia " (1879) ; and " History of the Queen's Rangers " (1883).

HANNEGAN, Edward A., senator, b. in Ohio ; d. in St. Louis, Mo., 25 Feb., 1859. He was edu- cated in Kentucky, where he spent his boyhood, and afterward began to practise law in Covington, Ind. He was frequently a member of the legisla- ture in 1833-'7, and was a representative in con- gress, having been elected as a Democrat. He was U. S. senator from Indiana in 1843-9, and from 22 March, 1849, till 13 Jan., 1850, was minister to Prussia. Mr. Hannegan was eloquent and brill- iant, but erratic. In 1852, while under the influ- ence of liquor, he killed his brother-in-law, Capt. Duncan. He afterward removed to St. Louis, Mo., where he spent the remainder of his life.

HANSON, John, delegate to congress, b. in Charles county, Md., in 1715; d. in Oxen Hills, Prince George co., Md., 22 Nov., 1783. He received an English education, and was a member of the Maryland house of delegates nearly every year from 1757 till 1781. He removed to Frederick county in 1773, was an active patriot, and in 1775 was treasurer of the county. About that time he was commissioned by the Maryland convention to establish a gun-lock factory at Frederick. On 9 Oct., 1776. he was one of a committee to go to the camp of the Maryland troops in New Jersey, "with power to appoint officers and to encourage the re-enlistment of the Maryland militia." He was a delegate to the Continental congress