Hannes Marino Hannesson Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Colonel
Hannes Marino Hannesson
Constituency Mp:Selkirk
Parliament:Canadian
Predecessor:Leland Payson Bancroft
Successor:Leland Payson Bancroft
Term Start:1925
Term End:1926
Birth Date:27 November 1884
Birth Place:Eyjafjord, Iceland
Death Place:Victoria, British Columbia
Party:Conservative
Children:Betty Hannesson, Richard Hannesson, Barbara Smythe, Petie N Deveer
Spouse:Kristrun Johnson
Occupation:lawyer, soldier

Hannes Marino Hannesson (November 27, 1884 – June 11, 1958) was a Member of Parliament for Manitoba and a lawyer.[1]

Born in Iceland, Hannesson's family immigrated to Canada and settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1886 where he was schooled. He attended the University of Manitoba and trained as a lawyer, being called to the Manitoba bar in 1905 and practiced law in Winnipeg and Selkirk, Manitoba.

During World War I, Hannesson joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force and saw action in France. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1916, captain and then major in 1916 and then lieutenant-colonel in 1917.

He entered politics after the war and was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Conservative MP for Selkirk defeating Liberal-Progressive MP Leland Payson Bancroft. The election returned a minority parliament and Hannenson was defeated by Bancroft a year later in the 1926 federal election and returned to private life. He died in Victoria, British Columbia in 1958 at the age of 73.[2]

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  1. Book: The Icelanders in Canada. Líndal, W.J.. 1967. National Publishers and Viking Printer. registration. 2015-01-12.
  2. Web site: Death Certificate . search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca . 2015-01-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064110/http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Genealogy/DisplayGenealogyImage?k=0296c14d-578d-4bcf-a403-0bd831728426 . 2016-03-04 . dead .