John Hanson | Revolutionary War, Continental Congress ...
Nov 18, 2025 · John Hanson was an American Revolutionary leader and president under the U.S. Articles of Confederation. A member of the Maryland Assembly (1757–79), he represented Maryland …
Was John Hanson the "Real" First President of the U.S.?
Jan 28, 2020 · John Hanson was a delegate to the second Continental Congress and the first President of the United States in Congress assembled. But was he the first U.S. president?
Who really was John Hanson, the man erroneously declared as ...
May 26, 2022 · The claim that John Hanson was the first Black president of the United States circulated years before the internet. Social media spread it.
Fact check: The first Black U.S. president was not a man ...
Aug 11, 2020 · The John Hanson shown in the image of the daguerreotype was a senator in Liberia. He is not the same person as the John Hanson who served as first president of the Continental Congress.
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress - Retro Member ...
Nelson, Jacob A. John Hanson and the Inseparable Union; An Authentic Biography of a Revolutionary Leader, Patriot and Statesman. Boston: Meador Publishing Company, 1939. Stoeckel, Herbert J. …
"A Durable Memento: Portraits by Augustus Washington, African ...
(circa 1791-1860) On August 11, 1827, John Hanson arrived in Monrovia aboard the brig Doris. A former slave who had purchased his freedom, Hanson was thirty-six years old when he left Baltimore and …
John Hanson - American Battlefield Trust
John Hanson was a revolutionary mobilizer in Maryland, organizing soldiers and civilians in the cause for independence. He became the first president of the...