Someone that I know has been posting that Barack Obama is not the first African-American President, that indeed there was an African-American President before him, John Hanson. I did my own …

Apr 3, 2019 · No, the first American president wasn’t a black man named John Hanson A story making the rounds on Facebook is challenging what Americans know about the first president of their country.

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Jan 1, 2016 · The facts about this black John Hanson John Hanson was a Liberian Senator from Grand Bassa County. He is clearly black, and from the picture, we can clearly see that he was born when …

Dec 15, 2020 · In the past few years, multiple social media posts have declared John Hanson, not Barack Obama, as the first Black president of the United States. The posts, which often feature a …

Often, Hanson is regarded as the "forgotten first President." In Seymour Weyss Smith 's biography of him, John Hanson, Our First President, he says that the American Revolution had two primary …

Apr 28, 2022 · John Hanson was not black but he did serve as the president of the first Continental Congress and so is sometimes referred to as the first president. (There was a black John Hanson …

Nov 18, 2025 · John Hanson was an American Revolutionary leader and president under the U.S. Articles of Confederation. A member of the Maryland Assembly (1757–79), he represented Maryland …