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Senate Committee Room

John Hanson (1721-1783)

Artist: Cedric Egeli, after Charles Willson Peale, 1974
Medium: Oil on canvas
MSA SC 1545-1033

John Hanson

Delegate, Continental Congress, 1780-82 Signer, Articles of Confederation, 1781; President, Continental Congress, 1781-82

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Portraits AND Exhibits in the Senate Committee Room

Joshua Barney

Jeremiah T. Chase

Sir Robert Eden

Mordecai Gist

Anne Catherine Hoof Green

John Hanson

William Paca

George Plater

Charles Willson Peale

John Eager Howard

Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer

Thomas Johnson, Jr.

James McHenry

William Smallwood

Samuel Smith

John H. Stone

Otho H. Williams

Washington, Lafayette and Tilghman at Yorktown

tilghmans swords

General George Washington resigning his military commission before Congress,
December 23, 1783