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Birthplace
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Annapolis, Md. |
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Occupation
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Lawyer, planter |
| Congressional
Service |
House 1813-16 (F-Maryland)
Senate 1816-19 (F-Maryland)
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Newspapers
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Baltimore
Federal Republican, 1808-1812, 1816-19 |
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Georgetown,
D.C. Federal Republican, 1812-16 |
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Federal
appointments
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none |
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Other offices
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As
militia officer, was court-martialed
but acquitted in 1809 for editorializing against the
mobilization of the military and the recruitment of troops. |
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Notes
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Perhaps
the War of 1812's most strident opponent, and an extreme critic of
Presidents Jefferson and Madison. (See Tyranny
of Printers and "Showing
the Scars," my article on press coverage of presidential
illnesses.) |
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His
newspaper was the target of the 1812 Baltimore riots, in which
Hanson was injured and several others were killed. |
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Graduate
of St. John's College |
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Bibliography
(beyond listed in the BDUSC) |
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Schauinger,
Joseph. "Alexander Contee Hanson, Federalist Partisan." Maryland
Historical Magazine 35 (1940): 354-64. |
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Fischer,
David Hackett. The Revolution of American Conservatism: The
Federalist Party in the Era of Jeffersonian Democracy (1965). |
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Hickey,
Donald R. The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict (1990) |
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Renzulli,
Libero Marx. Maryland: The Federalist Years. (1972) |
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