John Hanson (Liberian politician)

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John Hanson (died c. 1860) was a politician in Liberia. He served in Colonial Council and as a senator from Grand Bassa County following Liberia's independence in 1847.

Hanson was born into slavery, but purchased his freedom and emigrated from Baltimore to Liberia aged 36.<ref name="Dinius">Dinius, Marcy J. "The Camera and the Press" pg. 182</ref> In Liberia, he joined the growing mercantile class. He also served as Commissary in the same county for several years, furnishing a house for the storage of arms and ammunition.<ref name="Statute">"The Statute Laws of the Republic of Liberia" Vol. I, pg. 233</ref> Hanson died in 1860, and was mourned as a "faithful and patriotic servant" by Liberian president Stephen Allen Benson.

Senator Hanson has sometimes been misidentified as being John Hanson of Maryland, a white<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> politician who served as a President of the Continental Congress during the American Revolution.