John Hanson (Liberia or Maryland)

The Jealous and HATEFUL lies of White America on Black MEN

Senator John Hanson, c. 1856, from a daguerreotypeattributed to Augustus

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John Hanson (d. c. 1860) was an African Americanassociated with the American
Colonization Society, which sought to relocate black Americans to Liberia. In
Liberia, he served as a senator from Grand Bassa County.
Senator Hanson has recently been confused with an earlier John Hanson, a white
politician from Maryland who served as President of the Continental
Congress during the American Revolution. According to this urban myth, John
Hanson of Maryland was actually black. Internet sites promoting the hoax use the
photograph of Senator John Hanson of Liberia to support the claim, even though
photography had not yet been invented when the earlier John Hanson was living,
as he died in 1783, and photography was commercially introduced in 1839