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Hanson, Alexander Contee

jurist, was born Oct. 22, 1749. He was the first judge of the general court of Maryland under the constitution of 1776, and prepared a compilation of the laws of the state. He died in 1806, in Annapolis, Md.

HANSON, ALEXANDER CONTEE, lawyer, journalist, congressman, United States senator, was born Feb. 27, 1786, in Maryland. He was a presidential elector in 1789 and 1793; and at one time edited a political newspaper called the Federal Republican, first at Baltimore and then at Georgetown, D. C. He subsequently issued his paper in Georgetown; afterward settled in Baltimore; and was elected a representative in congress, serving from 1813 to 1816, when he was elected a senator of the United States from Maryland. He died April 23, 1810, in Belmont, Md.