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Mayor Hanna promoted the decision to construct Interstate 49 through northwestern Louisiana. [[General Motors]] located a plant in Shreveport while Hanna was mayor, but the facility since closed. The stadium at the Louisiana State Fair Grounds, became the renovated Independence Stadium, at which numerous [[football]] teams occasionally played their games.<ref name=fullobit/> Some two weeks after becoming mayor, Hanna presented [[actor]] [[John Wayne]], then in the last year of his life, the second annual "Spirit of Independence" Award at the annual Independence Bowl.<ref>''The Shreveport Times,'' December 14, 1978.</ref> <ref name=findagrave/>
Mayor Hanna promoted the decision to construct Interstate 49 through northwestern Louisiana. [[General Motors]] located a plant in Shreveport while Hanna was mayor, but the facility since closed. The stadium at the Louisiana State Fair Grounds, became the renovated Independence Stadium, at which numerous [[football]] teams occasionally played their games.<ref name=fullobit/> Some two weeks after becoming mayor, Hanna presented [[actor]] [[John Wayne]], then in the last year of his life, the second annual "Spirit of Independence" Award at the annual Independence Bowl.<ref>''The Shreveport Times,'' December 14, 1978.</ref> <ref name=findagrave/>
Former Mayor [[James C. Gardner]] served as a city council member in the Hanna administration and helped chart the new form of government. Other council members included Charles B. Peatross, a future judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit; Gregory Tarver, a later long-term state senator; John Scotto, a civil engineer from southwest Shreveport; Hilry Huckaby, the first vice-chairman of the council, and the Reverend [[Herman Farr]], a leader of the Shreveport [[NAACP]]. Tarver, Huckaby, and Farr were the first[[African-Americans]] to have served in Shreveport municipal government since [[Reconstruction.]]<ref name=findagrave/>
Former Mayor [[James C. Gardner]] served as a city council member in the Hanna administration and helped chart the new form of government. Other council members included Charles B. Peatross, a future judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit; Gregory Tarver, a later long-term state senator; John Scotto, a civil engineer from southwest Shreveport; Hilry Huckaby, the first vice-chairman of the council, and the Reverend [[Herman Farr]], a leader of the Shreveport [[NAACP]]. Tarver, Huckaby, and Farr were the first [[African-Americans]] to have served in Shreveport municipal government since [[Reconstruction]].<ref name=findagrave/>
In his memoirs "Jim Gardner and Shreveport, Vol. II," Gardner described Hanna, accordingly:
In his memoirs "Jim Gardner and Shreveport, Vol. II," Gardner described Hanna, accordingly: