President of the Continental Congress. The State of Maryland has greatly honored this socalled hyphenated citizen by placing his statue in the Nations Hall of Fame. During the closing days of the Wilson administration a plan was started. and later carried out. to build a monument on the Potomac to a Swedish immigrant. He was the inventor of the Monitor. whose timely arrival at Hampton Roads is thought by many historians to have saved the Capital City from falling into the hands of the Confederate armies. He was a loyal unionist. though apparently he did not become a citizen of this country.
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