Samuel Adams—Politician
Birth
Samuel Adams was born in Boston in 1722.
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Samuel ADAMS [Parents] [image] was born on 16 Sep 1722 in Boston, Suffolk, Ma. He died on 2 Oct 1803 in Boston, Suffolk, Ma. He was buried in Granary Bur Grnd, Boston, Suffolk, Ma. He married Elizabeth CHECKLEY on 1 Oct 1749 in Boston, Suffolk, Ma.
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Education
Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871?1958) was a American writer, best known for his investigative journalism. Adams was born in Dunkirk, New York. In 1891, he graduated from Hamilton College.
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Fame
Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (d. 1803)
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That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that." - Bill Clinton (MTV interview 4/21/1994) "And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms....." - Samuel Adams (1722-1803), was known as the "Father of the American Revolution."
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Work
He was the Samuel Adams of Philadelphia", said John Adams, "the life of the cause of liberty." He had just come to Philadelphia in September, 1774, with his bride, a sister of Benjamin Harrison, the signer, when he learned that he had been unanimously chosen Secretary of the 1st Continental congress. "He was the soul of that political body", says Abbe Robin, the chaplain of Rochambeau. He would receive no pay for his first year's services, and Congress presented his wife with a silver urn, which is still preserved in the family. He remained in this post under every Congress up to 1789, not only keeping the records but taking copious notes of its proceedings and of the progress of the Revolution.
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Samuel Adams championed the new federal Constitution in his own state, Massachusetts, because it was not democratic: “Democracy never lasts long.
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He, along with Samuel Adams, was on of the two most wanted men in the colonies by King George III. He served as a major general during the Revolutionary War. Hancock was elected Governor of Massachusetts from 1780-1785 and 1787 until his death in 1793.
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letter from John Adams to Hon. Samuel Griffin, Esq., dated January 19, 1797. In the letter, John Adams thanks Samuel Griffin for his offer of congratulations and suggestions regarding hiring a private secretary.
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Samuel ADAMS [Parents] was born on 6 May 1698 in Boston, Suffolk, Ma. He was christened on 12 May 1689 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. He died on 8 Mar 1748 in Boston, Suffolk Co, Ma. He married Mary FIFIELD on 21 Apr 1713 in Boston, Suffolk, Mass. ... She married Samuel ADAMS on 21 Apr 1713 in Boston, Suffolk, Mass.
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Samuel Adams was known as the “Firebrand of the Revolution” for his role as an agitator between the colonists and the British prior to the outbreak of hostilities in April 1775. He served in the Continental Congress until 1781, and was a member of the Massachusetts State Senate from 1781-1788. Because he was opposed to a stronger national government, Adams refused to attend the Federal Constitutional Convention in 1787. He served as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1789-1793 and Governor from 1794-1797.
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Revolutionary agitators like Samuel Adams used the event to stir up popular resistance, but after the trial of the soldiers, who were defended by John Adams, tensions diminished.
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