The Great Dan Brown Game!

John Hanson (1721-1783) was a Marylander who served as the first president of Congress after that body adopted the Articles of Confederation in 1781. Because he had the title “president” (though, of course, his position was more akin to a very weak Speaker of the House), some [mistaken] people say that he, not George Washington, was the first president of the United States.

John Hanson (?-c. 1860) was an Americo-Liberian senator who had absolutely no connection to the white Marylander. So, of course, some sources on the Internet, in some weird attempt to say that the first president of the United States was a black man, show this John Hanson as the first John Hanson and claim that this John Hanson was the first president of the United States.

Of course the first Hanson wasn’t the first president either.

Anyway.

I want Dan Brown to write a book “proving” this conspiracy theory. Connecting it with the Freemasons, the Catholic Church, and the Koch Brothers will, of course, be a given. Who’s with me?