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Hanson's team, seven big Hudson Bay dogs -- he's holding them at four hundred each.

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A representative of the Environmental Protection Agency said soil along the river is being tested and results will be available within a week to answer questions such as Hanson's.

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Most historians say that Hanson's role as President of the United States in Congress Assembled was more akin to House Speaker than POTUS.

Harriet Tubman vs. John Hanson: Statuary Hall smackdown 2011

They were big animals -- Hanson's prize team of Hudson Bays -- and

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But several lawmakers, including one of Hanson's own descendants and Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller D-Calvert, have argued vigorously against ousting the largely forgotten patriot, even if it's to make way for a widely admired name-brand historical figure such as Tubman.

Harriet Tubman vs. John Hanson: Statuary Hall smackdown 2011

But the proposal to get Tubman into Statuary Hall at Hanson's expense is "unacceptable," he said.

Harriet Tubman vs. John Hanson: Statuary Hall smackdown 2011

Maryland legislators sent Hanson's likeness to the Capitol in 1903, along with a statue of Charles Carroll, the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Harriet Tubman vs. John Hanson: Statuary Hall smackdown 2011

One of the running themes of the economist Robin Hanson's excellent blog is that arguments like the ones found in these books are actually an elite-status proxy war.

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But Hanson's dark-horse candidacy, promoted by the Maryland Historical Society, began to take shape, and eventually he won out - though he was nearly replaced in a committee vote by Key, who wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner."

Harriet Tubman vs. John Hanson: Statuary Hall smackdown 2011

"Unfortunately, it seems like a line is being drawn in the sand, and I don't like that," said Sen. Thomas "Mac" Middleton, a direct descendant of Hanson's brother and a Democrat from Charles County, where John Hanson was born nearly 300 years ago, in what was then the British Province of Maryland.

Harriet Tubman vs. John Hanson: Statuary Hall smackdown 2011