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Roger J. Vaughan

Roger Vaughan

The art of politics is ostentatious giving and surreptitious taking.
Roger J. Vaughan, quoted in Stephen Labaton, “Presidential Candidates Ignore Banking Problem,” New York Times, October 7, 1992.

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And on that Fifth of November, 1781, John Hanson of Maryland (pictured above) was elected to serve as president of the United States in Congress Assembled. He would become the first president of Congress to serve a full one-year term as specified under the Articles of Confederation, for the second session of the Confederation Congress. Of course, this presidency was nothing like the presidencies under the Constitution. Hanson merely presided over Congress.

On November 5, 1872, Susan B. Anthony defied the law to vote, and was later fined $100.