Who Was Samuel Adams?

       Samuel Adams, one of the most eminent of American patriots and orators during the early days of the nation; born in Boston in 1722; graduated at Harvard in 1740. He early distinguished himself as a political writer of great ability. He was in 1765 elected from Boston a member of the General Assembly of Massachusetts, to which position he was successively reelected for nine years. He was one of the first men of prominence who favored American independence. On account of the prominent part he took in organizing measures of resistance to the British Government, he was one of the two popular leaders who were excepted from the general pardon offered in June, 1775. Elected in 1774 to the Continental Congress, he was in 1776 one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and afterward served as State Senator, member of the Convention which ratified the Federal Constitution, Lieutenant-Governor and Governor of his native State. A s an orator he was ardent, luminous, and eloquent. Died in Boston, October 2, 1803. 

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