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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] Smith's book asserts that the American Revolution had two primary leaders: George Washington on the battlefield and John Hanson in politics. [ 37 ]
"The American icons of the Revolutionary period -- Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, [and] others -- looked to John Hanson as the one [who] twice saved the nation and also to Hanson's way ...
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 ...
The claim: John Hanson was the first Black president of the United States. ... Liberia, then a West African colony, had been founded by freed American slaves a few years earlier. Throughout the ...
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.
First president to have the National Security Council include an official dedicated to climate change (John Kerry, as U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate). [551] First president to have a national climate advisor (Gina McCarthy). [552] First president to appoint a Muslim American as a federal judge (Zahid Quraishi). [553]
John Hanson by Charles Willson Peale, circa 1781. Hanson served as President of Congress from November 5, 1781 to November 4, 1782. He was the first elected President according to the procedures under the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union.
The American Cincinnatus: [1] Like the famous Roman, he won a war, then became a private citizen instead of seeking power or riches as a reward. He became the first president general of the Society of the Cincinnati, formed by Revolutionary War officers who also "declined offers of power and position to return to his home and plough".