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Samuel Adams (September 27 [ O.S. September 16] 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the United States. [5] He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and other founding ...
Jun 7, 2024 · Samuel Adams, politician of the American Revolution, leader of the Massachusetts ‘radicals,’ who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was later lieutenant governor (1789–93) and governor (1794–97) of Massachusetts.
Oct 27, 2009 · Founding Father Samuel Adams was a thorn in the side of the British in the years before the American Revolution. As a political activist and state legislator, he spoke out against British efforts...
Jun 4, 2024 · Samuel Adams (1722-1803) was a prominent Patriot leader in the American Revolution (1765-1789), and a Founding Father of the United States.
May 1, 2024 · September 27, 1722–October 2, 1803. Samuel Adams was a Founding Father, member of the Continental Congress, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, and a leading proponent of colonial independence from Great Britain.
Samuel Adams delivered what may count as the most remarkable second act in American life. It was all the more confounding after the first: He was a perfect failure until middle age.
Samuel Adams, (born Sept. 27, 1722, Boston, Mass.—died Oct. 2, 1803, Boston, Mass., U.S.), American Revolutionary leader. A cousin of John Adams, he graduated from Harvard College in 1740 and briefly practiced law.
Jul 15, 2019 · Samuel Adams (September 16, 1722–October 2, 1803) played an important philosophical and activist role in early advocating the independence of the North American British colonies, and the eventual founding of the new United States. Fast Facts: Samuel Adams.
Samuel Adams: Boston's Radical Revolutionary. Portrait of Adams ca. 1772 by John Singleton Copley. The portrait eventually came into the ownership of the City and hung in the Great Hall of Faneuil Hall until deposited at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. A copy still hangs today in the Great Hall.
Born as the son of a church deacon in 1722, Samuel Adams understood from a young age the authority private citizens could hold over politics once properly mobilized.
