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John Hanson, Jr.
b. 3/14 Apr 1721, Mulberry Grove, Charles County, Maryland [1]
d. 15 Nov 1783, Oxen (Oxon) Hill, Prince George's County, Maryland |
| 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] |
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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 (1750-1753); 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; served as deputy surveyor of Frederick County (1769-1777); 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 (1775); 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:
"John Hanson, Public Servant," by Ralph B. Levering in Maryland Historical Magazine, vol. 71, No. 2, Summer 1976, pp. 113-133; Maryland Gazette, No. 1924, 27 Nov 1783, p. 2, col. 3 (obituary) |
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| [1] |
"Charles County Gentry: A Genealogical History of Six Emigrants - Thomas Dent, John Dent, Richard Edelen, John Hanson, George Newman, Humphrey Warren", by Harry Wright Newman (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1971), p. 243. |
| [2] |
Journals of the Continental Congress, 21:1100. |
| [3] |
Journals of the Continental Congress, 23:707ff. |
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Image: portrait of by Cedric B. Egeli after the portrait by Charles Willson Peale (c. 1781-1782). |
