Samuel Adams - American Founding Father & Father of the Revolution

Samuel Adams - Founding Father, Statesman, and Political Philosopher Samuel Adams (September 27, 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to his fellow Founding Father, President John Adams. Adams was born in Boston, brought up in a religious and politically active family. A graduate of Harvard College, he was an unsuccessful businessman and tax collector before concentrating on politics. He was an influential official of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Boston Town Meeting in the 1760s, and he became a part of a movement opposed to the British Parliament's efforts to tax the British American colonies without their consent. His 1768 Massachusetts Circular Letter calling for colonial non-cooperation prompted the occupation of Boston by British soldiers, eventually resulting in the Boston Massacre of 1770. Adams and his colleagues devised a committee of correspondence system in 1772 to help coordinate resistance to what he saw as the British government's attempts to violate the British Constitution at the expense of the colonies, which linked like-minded Patriots throughout the Thirteen Colonies. Continued resistance to British policy resulted in the 1773 Boston Tea Party and the coming of the American Revolution. Adams was actively involved with colonial newspapers publishing accounts of colonial sentiment over British colonial rule, which were fundamental in uniting the colonies. Parliament passed the Coercive Acts in 1774, at which time Adams attended the Continental Congress in Philadelphia which was convened to coordinate a colonial response. He helped guide Congress towards issuing the Continental Association in 1774 and the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and he helped draft the Articles of Confederation and the Massachusetts Constitution. Adams returned to Massachusetts after the American Revolution, where he served in the state senate and was eventually elected governor. #AmericanHistory #AmericanHeroes #ParryThis Other AMERICAN HEROES:    • American Heroes   Citations Boston National Historical Park. (2021, October 13). Samuel Adams: Boston's Radical Revolutionary. National Parks Service. Retrieved February 11, 2022, from https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/samu... Editors of LegendsofAmerica.com. (2022). Samuel Adams and the Boston Tea Party. Legends of America. Retrieved February 11, 2022, from https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ah-s... History.com Editors. (2009, October 27). Samuel Adams. History.com. Retrieved February 11, 2022, from https://www.history.com/topics/americ... Lawler, S. (2021, August 27). Samuel Adams (1722-1803). Boston Tea Party Ships. Retrieved February 11, 2022, from https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/sa...