Charles William Hanko

Charles William Hanko (born 1920) was an American historian and politician.

Hanko ran unsuccessfully as a Republican Candiddate for the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1948. He was for a time a professor of history at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institutein the Dept. of History and Economics. He held a fellowship related to economics at Case Institute of Technology (now part of Case Western Reserve University) in 1954.

Hanko wrote biographies of John Gibson and Matthew Stanley Quay. Other books by Hanko include Economic threats to America and Christian Mobilizing (Neward: Washington Irving Pub. Co., 1955). He also wrote a book The Evangelical Protestant Movement(Educators Pub.Co.,1955) In 1972 Hanko wrote "Suarez and Western Civilization."

Hanko was a member of the Evangelical Congregational Church in McKeesport, Pennsylvania where he was a licententiate minister.This congregation became an Evangelical Protestant Church.

Sources

• Dust jacket of The Life of John Gibson: Soldier, Patriot, Statesman
• listing of Gibson's books

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Name	Hanko, Charles William
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Date of birth	3 August 1920
Place of birth	Pennsylvania USA
Date of death	7 December 1990
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