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John Hanson, Jr.b. 3/14 Apr 1715, Mulberry Grove, Charles County, Maryland [1] |
| Title: | President of Congress |
| Term: | 5 Nov 1781 - 3 Nov 1782 |
| Chronology: | 5 Nov 1781, elected to the office of the President of Congress, session of Congress, State House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [2] |
| 3 Nov 1782, term of delegate (and subsequently as the President of Congress) is deemed to have expired upon convening of a new Congress [3] |
| Biography: | |
| Son of a planter; did not receive any formal education; served as sheriff of Charles County; was engaged in agricultural pursuits in Maryland; elected a delegate to the Maryland Lower House of Assembly (1757-1763, 1765-1766, 1768-1769) as a representative of Charles County; held the office of treasurer of Frederick County (1775); elected a delegate to the Assembly of Freemen at Annapolis (1774-1775); chaired the Frederick County committee of observation; was elected to the Maryland's House of Delegates of the General Assembly (1779); elected a delegate from Maryland to the Continental Congress (1780-1782) and was one of the signers of the Articles of Confederation; elected the President of Congress (5 Nov 1781 - 3 Nov 1782). | |
| Biographical sources: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (2005), p. 11882; The Maryland Gazette, XXXIXth Year, No. 1924, Thursday, November 27, 1783 (obituary) | |
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| [1] | The Maryland Historical & Genealogical Bulletin, vol. 1 (1941), p. 17: "Hanson, John, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Hanson, born Monday, April 3, "about 2 or 3 in ye afternoon." |
| [2] | Journals of the Continental Congress, 21:1100. |
| [3] | Journals of the Continental Congress, 23:707ff. |
| Image: portrait of by Cedric B. Egeli after the portrait by Charles Willson Peale (c. 1781-1782). | |
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