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John Hanson National Memorial, located in front of the Frederick County Courthouse in Frederick, Maryland. The idea that Hanson was the forgotten first president of the United States was further promoted in a 1932 biography of Hanson by journalist Seymour Wemyss Smith. [36]
The myth surrounding the first U.S. president confuses two historical figures named John Hanson, one Black and the other white. The John Hanson who was Black was a former slave from Maryland who ...
John Hanson (died c. 1860) was an African American politician in Liberia. He served in Colonial Council and as a senator from Grand Bassa County following Liberia's independence in 1847. He was born into slavery, but he purchased his freedom and emigrated from Baltimore to Liberia at age thirty-six. [ 2 ]
Mostly forgotten, but equally important, John Hanson was the first president of the Continental Congress following the ratification of the Articles of Confederation.
He is the first African American elected to serve in a state legislature, the Vermont House of Representatives in 1836. Twilight was also a minister and secondary school principal, building Athenian Hall at the Orleans County Grammar Schools. John Mercer Langston; Edward Garrison Walker, state legislator in Massachusetts
President Barack Obama, who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017, had an African father and an American mother of mostly European ancestry. [1] [2] His father, Barack Obama Sr. (1936–1982), [3] was a Luo Kenyan [4] from Nyang'oma Kogelo, Kenya. [5]
Obama became the first Black president in American history after winning the 2008 election race against John McCain. While in office, he earned a Nobel Peace Prize, worked to limit climate change ...
The president of the United States in Congress Assembled, known unofficially as the president of the Continental Congress and later as president of the Congress of the Confederation, was the presiding officer of the Continental Congress, the convention of delegates that assembled in Philadelphia as the first transitional national government of the United States during the American Revolution.