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==Background==
==Background==
Born in [[Kansas City]], [[Missouri]], to William Hanna, Sr. (1903-1980), and the former Irma Belle Adams (1907-1980). The couple married in 1925 in an airplane traveling 75 miles per hour some 2,000 feet above the surface of the earth, a unique wedding for that time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/174152980/william-thomas-hanna|title=William Thomas "Bill" Hanna, Sr.|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=May 16, 2020}}</ref>Hanna's mother was the aunt of [[Owen D. Adams]], one of the first [[Republican Party|Republicans]] elected to the former Caddo Parish Police Jury and later for twelve years as the mayor of Greenwood in southwestern Caddo Parish.
Born in [[Kansas City]], [[Missouri]], to William Hanna, Sr. (1903-1980), and the former Irma Belle Adams (1907-1980). The couple married in 1925 in an airplane traveling 75 miles per hour some 2,000 feet above the surface of the earth, a unique wedding for that time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/174152980/william-thomas-hanna|title=William Thomas "Bill" Hanna, Sr.|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=May 16, 2020}}</ref>Hanna's mother was the aunt of [[Owen D. Adams]], one of the first [[Republican Party|Republicans]] elected to the former Caddo Parish Police Jury and later for twelve years as the mayor of Greenwood in southwestern Caddo Parish.<ref>{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/178600611/owen-dickson-adams|title=Owen Dickson Adams|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=May 16, 2020}}</ref>
Hanna moved in infancy with his parents from Kansas City to Shreveport. In 1947, he graduated from Clifton Ellis Byrd High School and enrolled at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]], He played on the LSU Tigers [[baseball]] team from 1949 to 1951, and was thereafter a shortstop for several minor league teams but soon returned to Shreveport to join his father in business.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2016/12/17/former-shreveport-mayor-bill-hanna-dies/95574356/|title=Former Shreveport Mayor Bill Hanna dies at 86|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''||author=Scott Ferrell|accessdate=December 18, 2016}}</ref>
Hanna moved in infancy with his parents from Kansas City to Shreveport. In 1947, he graduated from Clifton Ellis Byrd High School and enrolled at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]], He played on the LSU Tigers [[baseball]] team from 1949 to 1951, and was thereafter a shortstop for several minor league teams but soon returned to Shreveport to join his father in business.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2016/12/17/former-shreveport-mayor-bill-hanna-dies/95574356/|title=Former Shreveport Mayor Bill Hanna dies at 86|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''||author=Scott Ferrell|accessdate=December 18, 2016}}</ref>