Information That Many History Books and Classes Forgot or Did Not Include

The Time Period - The 1700's and the 1800's - You Are About The Receive A Historical Brief and Video Portrayal of The First Black President, Senator, and Over 20 United States Legislators To Serve The United States of America. Most people think that Barack Obama was the first black President of the United States. However, this fact is totally wrong. John Hanson was actually the 1st President of the United States, he served from 1781 – 1782 and he was black. 

Below is some information about this remarkable person (John Hanson) along with Hiram R. Revels From Mississippi, Benjamin S. Turner From Alabama, Robert Carlos De Large From South Carolina, Josiah T. Walls From Flordia, Jefferson F. Long From Georgia, Joseph H. Rainey From South Carlonia, and Robert B. Elliot From South Carlonia plus many more.

First here is a video about why more information about these Patriots of Color is played down.

John Hanson

Hanson is sometimes called the first president of the United States, but this is a misnomer since the presidency did not exist as an executive position separate from Congress until the federal Constitution created the role upon its ratification in 1789.

Hanson was the self-educated son of Charles County, Maryland, farmers. His family had lived in Maryland for three generations beginning with the emigration from England of his grandfather, for whom he was named. At age 25, John married 16-year-old Jane Contee in Maryland. Their lasting union produced nine children, five of whom survived to adulthood, although their son Peter was later killed in action as a Continental soldier at Fort Washington, New York, in November 1776.

Hanson’s political career began in 1757 with his election to the Maryland Colonial Assembly. He returned to represent Charles County again from 1758-1763, 1765, 1766 and 1768-1769. As colonial-British relations frayed, Hanson took a seat in the revolutionary Annapolis Convention, which took control of the colony from the British in 1774 and renamed itself the Assembly of Freemen in 1776. An outspoken supporter of the Patriot cause, Hanson was instrumental in Maryland’s decision to back the rebels laying siege to British-controlled Boston in the aftermath of the battles of Lexington and Concord.

Named a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1779, Hanson served in that body from 1780 to 1782, including a term as the president of Congress (a position similar to that of prime minister in the British Parliament) from 1781 to 1782, during which time the Articles of Confederation were finally ratified and General George Washington defeated the British army at Yorktown, Virginia. Upon the ratification of the Articles on March 1, 1781, the Continental Congress became the “Congress of the Confederation” or the “United States in Congress Assembled.” Hanson was the first president of that body, but not of the United States.

Hiram Revels 

To date, ten African Americans have served in the United States Senate. In 1870, Hiram Revels of Mississippi turned into the main African American representative. After five years, Blanche K. Bruce of Mississippi was elected to office. Here is somewhat more information about this individual of intrigue. 

Hiram Revels of Mississippi turned into the main African American Congressperson in 1870. Conceived in North Carolina in 1827, Revels went to Knox College in Illinois and later filled in as a priest in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland. He raised two black regiments amid the Civil War and battled at the skirmish of Vicksburg in Mississippi. The Mississippi state council sent him to the U.S. Senate amid Reconstruction where he turned into a blunt rival of racial isolation. Despite the fact that Revels served in the Senate for only a year, he broke new ground for African Americans in Congress.

U.S. House OF REPRESENTATIVES – FIRST BLACKS WERE ALL REPUBLICANS 

Republicans – the racists? In 1868, Republicans chose the principal black individual to speak to them in Congress. There were no black Democrats in Congress until 1935. For just about seven decades Republicans were the ONLY ONES choosing blacks to Congress. Here are the chronicled certainties of all Early Black US Representatives whom all happened to be Republicans.

John Willis Menard (1838-1893); Republican – Louisiana; Term: 1868

Joseph Rainey (1832-1887); Republican – South Carolina; Term:1870-1879

Jefferson F. Long (1836-1901); Republican – Georgia; Term: 1870-1871

Robert C. De Large (1842-1874); Republican – South Carolina; Term: 1871-1873

Robert B. Elliott (1842-1884); Republican – South Carolina; Term: 1871-1874

Benjamin S. Turner (1825-1894); Republican – Alabama; Term: 1871-1873

Josiah T. Walls (1842-1905); Republican – Florida; Terms: 1871-1873, 1873-1875, 1875-1876

Richard H. Cain (1825-1887); Republican – South Carolina; Terms: 1873-1875, 1877-1879

John R. Lynch (1847-1939); Republican – Mississippi; Terms: 1873-1877, 1882-1883

James T. Rapier (1837-1883); Republican – Alabama; Term: 1873-1875

Alonzo J. Ransier (1834-1882); Republican – South Carolina; Term: 1873-1875

Jeremiah Haralson (1846-1916); Republican – Alabama; Term: 1875-1877

John Adams Hyman (1840-1891); Republican – North Carolina; Term: 1875-1877

Charles E. Nash (1844-1913); Republican – Louisiana; Term: 1875-1877

Robert Smalls (1839-1915); Republican – South Carolina; Terms: 1875-1879, 1882-1883, 1884-1887

James E. O’Hara (1844-1905); Republican – North Carolina; Term: 1883-1887

Henry P. Cheatham (1857-1935); Republican – North Carolina; Term: 1889-1893

John Mercer Langston (1829-1897); Republican – Virginia; Term: 1890-1891

Thomas E. Miller (1849-1938); Republican – South Carolina; Term: 1890-1891

George W. Murray (1853-1926); Republican – South Carolina; Terms: 1893-1895, 1896-1897

George Henry White (1852-1918); Republican – North Carolina; Term: 1897-1901

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U.S. SENATE – FIRST BLACKS WERE ALL REPUBLICANS:

Hiram Rhodes Revels (1822-1901); Republican – Mississippi; Term: 1870-1871

Blanche Bruce (1841-1898); Republican – Mississippi; Term: 1875-1881