re: Who is the most forgettable president?

quote:

---

John Hanson (Nov 5 1781 – Nov 3 1782)

---

This is often thought of as the answer from some of his biographers, and it makes a good trivia question. Founding father who was elected as First President of the Confederation Congress after the Articles of Confederation were signed in 1781.

quote:

---

John Hanson served as the first president of the original United States government chartered by the Articles of Confederation in 1781, and twice before that played the key role at critical junctures in holding the thirteen states together in a unified nation. His two nation-saving strokes and his adroit marshaling of materiel, troops and financing during the Revolutionary War made him the choice by some of the greatest Americans who ever lived as their nation’s first president.

---

Then, it gets worse as he died and America completely lost track of him... twice.

quote:

---

President Hanson took ill a final time, lingering with much discomfort. On November 22, 1783, the American who had twice been indispensable in assuring nationhood, to whom the young nation had turned to first lead it, who had sacrificed so much in bringing forth his country, died at 68. Had he lived five days more, he would have celebrated Thanksgiving which by his quill had become official one year earlier.
Then John Hanson vanished.
In one of the most astounding turns in American history, Hanson's gravesite became forgotten, rediscovered, forgotten again, and found once more in 2011 in researching Remembering John Hanson by which time it and Hanson's body had vanished in the most tragic manner

---

Remembering John Hanson: 1st President of the Original USG