Definition of contempt. 1a : the act of despising : the state of mind of one who despises : disdain glared at him in contemptb : lack of respect or reverence for something acting with contempt for public safety. 2 : the state of being despised.
Erin Hanson (born 1981) is a Los Angeles-based American contemporary landscape painter.
Hanson was elected to the newly reformed Maryland House of Delegates in 1777, the first of five annual terms. In December 1779, the House of Delegates named Hanson as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress; he began serving in Congress in Philadelphia in June 1780.anson retired from public office after his one-year term as president of Congress. In poor health, he died on November 15, 1783, while visiting Oxon Hill Manor in Prince George's County, Maryland, the plantation of his nephew Thomas Hawkins Hanson.