Pejman Yousefzadeh

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It’s Presidents Day! Time to read up on John Hanson, the president before George Washington.

Although Hanson held the nation’s highest office nearly a decade before Washington, don’t expect to find his image alongside old George’s familiar visage in department store circulars and used car lots as they roll out their Presidents’ Day specials today. The man some historians argue was truly the country’s first president was long ago swept into the dustbin of history.

 Washington has been the subject of countless tomes; Hanson has barely inspired footnotes.

 However, both men led remarkably parallel lives — on opposite sides of the Potomac River. Hanson was born into a prominent family in Port Tobacco, Md., and spent much of his life on a plantation less than 20 miles away from Washington’s beloved Virginia estate, Mount Vernon. Both men were prosperous merchants, slave owners and devout patriots.

3 months ago

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