Alexander Contee Hanson

Alexander Contee Hanson ( born February 27, 1786 in Annapolis, Maryland, † April 23, 1819 in Elkridge, Maryland ) was an American politician ( Federalist Party), who represented the state of Maryland in both chambers of Congress.

Alexander Hanson received his education at private schools in Annapolis. He took his degree in 1802 at the city's St. John 's College. He subsequently studied law, was admitted to the bar and began to practice in his hometown. In Baltimore, he founded the newspaper Federal Republican, with which he vigorously championed the cause of the Federalists. On June 22, 1812, four days after the start of the British -American War, its editorial office was destroyed by an angry mob after he had written a comment critical of the government. He moved to another building and just a week later, was seriously injured in a further turmoil. He then moved the seat of the newspaper to Georgetown.

His first political office took over Hanson in 1811 as a member of the Lower House of Maryland. The following year he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he remained from March 4, 1813 until his resignation in 1816. In the same year he missed the re-election to parliament of his home state. For this, he drew on 20 December 1816 in the U.S. Senate, where he took the place of the retiring Robert Goodloe Harper. Hanson died on April 23, 1819 at his estate " Belmont " and was buried in the family cemetery.