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John Hanson (April 14 [O.S. April 3] 1721 – November 15, 1783) was an American Founding Father, merchant, and politician from Maryland during the Revolutionary Era.In 1779, Hanson was elected as a delegate to the Continental Congress after serving in a variety of roles for the Patriot cause in Maryland.
President John Hanson wanted to resign after only a week in office, but Congress lacked a quorum to select a successor, and so he stayed on. [7] President Thomas Mifflin found it difficult to convince the states to send enough delegates to Congress to ratify the 1783 Treaty of Paris. [19]
John Tyler was the first vice president to assume the presidency during a presidential term, and set the precedent that a vice president who does so becomes the fully functioning president with their own administration. [10] Throughout most of its history, American politics has been dominated by political parties. The Constitution is silent on ...
Mostly forgotten, but equally important, John Hanson was the first president of the Continental Congress following. By RYAN GORMAN Everything you learned in history class is wrong, George ...
The John Hanson who served as the first president of the Congress of the Confederation was white. The photograph purporting to be of the first Black president of the U.S. is actually of another ...
Hanson died in 1860, and was mourned as a "faithful and patriotic servant" by Liberian president Stephen Allen Benson. Senator Hanson has sometimes been misidentified as being John Hanson of Maryland, a white [ 4 ] politician who served as a President of the Continental Congress during the American Revolution .
President Term Samuel Huntington: March 1, 1781 – July 10, 1781 Thomas McKean: July 10, 1781 – November 5, 1781 John Hanson: November 5, 1781 – November 4, 1782 Elias Boudinot: November 4, 1782 – November 3, 1783 Thomas Mifflin: November 3, 1783 – June 3, 1784 Richard Henry Lee: November 30, 1784 – November 4, 1785 John Hancock
November 5 – John Hanson is elected President of the Continental Congress. December – A school is founded in Washington County, Pennsylvania that would later be known as Washington & Jefferson College. [1]