This is a forum post by the user whyohme
: Today is a wonderful day but some of us need a history lesson.
Was the First President of the United States! 1781-1782 A.D.??? George Washington was really the 8th President of the United States!
George Washington was not the first President of the United States. In fact, the first President of the United States was one John Hanson. Don't go checking the encyclopedia for this guy's name - he is one of those great men that are lost to history. If you're extremely lucky, you may actually find a brief mention of his name.
The new country was actually formed on March 1, 1781 with the adoption of The Articles of Confederation. This *** was actually proposed on June 11, 1776, but not agreed upon by Congress until November 15, 1777. Maryland refused to sign this *** until Virginia and New York ceded their western lands (Maryland was afraid that these states would gain too much power in the new government from such large amounts of land).
Once the signing took place in 1781, a President was needed to run the country. John Hanson was chosen unanimously by Congress (which included George Washington). In fact, all the other potential candidates refused to run against him, as he was a major player in the revolution and an extremely influential member of Congress.
As the first President, Hanson had quite the shoes to fill. No one had ever been President and the role was poorly defined. His actions in office would set precedent for all future Presidents.
He took office just as the Revolutionary War ended. Almost immediately, the troops demanded to be paid. As would be expected after any long war, there were no funds to meet the salaries. As a result, the soldiers threatened to overthrow the new government and put Washington on the throne as a monarch.
All the members of Congress ran for their lives, leaving Hanson as the only guy left running the government. He somehow managed to calm the troops down and hold the country together. If he had failed, the government would have fallen almost immediately and everyone would have been bowing to King Washington. In fact, Hanson sent 800 pounds of sterl ing silver by his brother Samuel Hanson to George Washington to provide the troops with shoes.
Hanson, as President, ordered all foreign troops off American soil, as well as the removal of all foreign flags. This was quite the feat, considering the fact that so many European countries had a stake in the United States since the days following Columbus.
We need to start SPECIFICALLY asking for $2.00 bills when making bank transactions. Even if it is only $10.00 worth, do it just to put the only link to this great man back into circulation!
Also, pass this on to someone else,teach them. We have books and the internet but history is taught by word of mouth as well.
I will be doing this from now on!
@BV
Actually he was the first black president not the first president. I found this information at the black museum in baltimore, MD.
Another thing its was also my daughter history teacher that mention this also.
Did you also know you can also go to the African American Library here in DC off 9th street ***.W. that can also confirm too.
So yes I can confirm that John Hanson was actually the first black President.
There is a lot about the history of this country and the part Moors played in building it that has been stolen and hidden but a lot of people are afraid to learn about such things because it would crack the foundation of their very existence and force them to see that d@mn near everything they have every been told is a lie.
I personally need to do more research about this John Hanson person.
Continental Congress or not, some one was running things in this country after they decided to break away from England. George Washington was a general in the army. He had to answer to someone. What that person's title was exactly doesn't really matter, George Washington was not the first leader of this country.
The first successful picture was produced in June/July 1827 by Niépce, using material that hardened on exposure to light. This picture required an exposure of eight hours.
On 4 January 1829 Niépce agreed to go into partnership with Louis Daguerre . Niépce died only four years later, but Daguerre continued to experiment. Soon he had discovered a way of developing photographic plates, a process which greatly reduced the exposure time from eight hours down to half an hour. He also discovered that an image could be made permanent by immersing it in salt.
Following a report on this invention by Paul Delaroche , a leading scholar of the day, the French government bought the rights to it in July 1839. Details of the process were made public on 19 August 1839, and Daguerre named it the Daguerreotype.
Photography arrived in the United States due to the enthusiasm of Samuel F. B. Morse, an American artist and inventor. Morse visited Daguerre in Paris in March 1839 and observed a demonstration of the daguerreotype process. Morse returned to the United States to spread the news, and by year’s end new practitioners such as John Plumbe of New York City and the Langenheim brothers (William and Frederick) of Philadelphia had mastered the daguerreotype process and set up successful portrait studios. The yen for daguerreotypes persisted in America well into the 1850s, long after European photographers had switched to a much improved positive/negative process derived from Talbot’s method. Most pictures of the California Gold Rush of 1849, for example, are daguerreotypes.
John Hanson (14 April [O.S. 3 April] 1715 – November 22, 1783) was a delegate to the United States in Congress Assembled from Maryland. Because he was the first President of Congress from Maryland to serve under a fully ratified Articles of Confederation (Maryland did not complete the process and sign until March 1, 1781), John Hanson has been called the First President of the United States in Congress Assembled. He did serve a full one-year term, November 5, 1781 to November 4, 1782, as President of the United States in Congress Assembled under the Articles of Confederation.
Hanson is one of the most *** figures in US history. He is frequently mentioned in connection with the claim that he was the first President, but fewer facts are clear about his life and accomplishments than is the case with most of his contemporaries. One of the difficulties this caused was that several writers in the 19th century filled in the blanks with fiction. For various reasons, Hanson has been the subject of a large number of misconceptions or misrepresentations.
i dont doubt the info but that cant be the man either that or the dates are wrong because the photograph makes this story historically inaccurate. not only did the first photographic process not show until about 50 years after his death but the first pair of eyeglasses didnt show up until later either. i believe the info but some where along the lne it got slightly miscommunicated.
I did realize but that process wasn't advanced enough to hold up that well after all these years. That is why I determined that it had to be a photograph. The only way that would have held up that well is if it was perserved under certain conditions that i can not imagine that they had during that time period.
(excuse the typos im watching Maury lol)
LETS RUN DOWN SOME FACTS
FACT: President John Hanson Was Born in 1715 and died in 1783.
FACT: Daguerreotypes was invented by French artist and inventor Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre who was born in 1789 and died in 1851
FACT: The daguerreotype, a photograph produced on a silver-coated copperplate treated with iodine vapor, was developed with J. Nicéphore Niepce and ceded to the Academy of Sciences in 1839.
FACT: The photo of the Daguerreotype of Senator John Hanson was taken between 1856 and 1860
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How is it Possible for a man (President John Hanson) who died in 1783 to have his picture taken by an invention that didn't exist until 1839? *
How is it Possible for a man (President John Hanson) who died in 1783 to have his picture taken by an invention when the inventor was not even born yet? *
How is it Possible for a man (President John Hanson) who died in 1783 to have his picture taken between 1856 and 1860
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