USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In November 1781, John Hanson became the first President of the United States in Congress Assembled, under the Articles of Confederation.

Detailed explanation-2: -John Hanson was a Liberian senator during the mid-19th century who has been erroneously claimed as the first Black president of the United States. Not much is known about Hanson’s early life. He was born into slavery in Baltimore, Maryland, around 1791.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thomas, Douglas H. John Hanson, President of the United States in Congress Assembled, 1781–1782. 1898. According to the American National Biography, the biographies of Hanson are not “adequate", though this one, written by Hanson’s grandson, is “perhaps the most satisfactory” of the lot.

Detailed explanation-4: -John Adams, a remarkable political philosopher, served as the second President of the United States (1797-1801), after serving as the first Vice President under President George Washington. Learned and thoughtful, John Adams was more remarkable as a political philosopher than as a politician.

Detailed explanation-5: -His two nation-saving strokes and his adroit marshaling of materiel, troops and financing during the Revolutionary War made him the choice by some of the greatest Americans who ever lived as their nation’s first president. Peter Michael’s definitive Hanson biography is the first in over seventy years.