Joshua+K.+-+I+am+John+Hanson

=Historical Inquiry= "I am John Hanson." I am reaseraching about John Hanson. First, I knew barely anything about John Hanson except the fact that he was the president of Articles of Confederation. I thought since Articles of Confederation didn't work for the citizens, John Hanson would have make some mistakes or something that affects negatively to the government. However, when I researched about him, even though he isn't known worldwide as George Washington, he did enormous things that can be compared to what George Washington did. While I was reasearching about John Hanson, I had few questions that came into my mind. Is there anything that affected the government negatively because of John Hanson? Despite of his little power to the nation, how could he possibly established things like, Bank of North America, Treasury Department, Secretary of War and Foreign Affairs Department.

My primary question is:
 * Why is the first president under Articles of Confederation, John Hanson is forgotten, while the first president under the Constitution, George Washington is so famous?**

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=Primary Sources= Document Audio Video Visual Quotes
 * Articles of confederation http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display.aspx?categoryid=31&entryid=253915&searchtext=john+hanson&type=simple&option=all&searchsites=1,4,5,6
 * Proclamation (Thanks Giving Day) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/features/thanks/thanks.html
 * Drawing http://artruch.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/john_hanson_portrait_1770.jpg
 * Letters http://www.johnhanson.net/
 * Letters 2 http://www.johnhanson.net/hanson2/
 * Letters http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query
 * Letters http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=457