[[Al Ater]], a Ferriday farmer who was a former state representative and the acting Louisiana secretary of state at the time of Hanna's death, was an honorary pallbearer at the funeral, along with former [[U.S. Representative]] John Cooksey of Monroe, a [[Republican Party|Republican]], and former state Representative [[Bryant Hammett]], a Democrat from Ferriday. Ater said that few individuals had "their finger on the pulse of politics in Louisiana more than he did. He had a sixth sense of the happenings of the political situation in this state -- police jury to governor, your source for information was Sam Hanna."<ref name=eandp/> | [[Al Ater]], a Ferriday farmer who was a former state representative and the acting Louisiana secretary of state at the time of Hanna's death, was an honorary pallbearer at the funeral, along with former [[U.S. Representative]] John Cooksey of Monroe, a [[Republican Party|Republican]], and former state Representative [[Bryant Hammett]], a Democrat from Ferriday. Ater said that few individuals had "their finger on the pulse of politics in Louisiana more than he did. He had a sixth sense of the happenings of the political situation in this state -- police jury to governor, your source for information was Sam Hanna."<ref name=eandp/> |