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Adams, Samuel (1722–1803)

US politician, the chief instigator of the Boston Tea Party (see American Revolution). He was a signatory to the Declaration of Independence, served in the Continental Congress, and anticipated the French emperor Napoleon in calling the British a ‘nation of shopkeepers’.

Adams took the colonists' side in the disturbances caused by the Stamp Act 1765, and in 1765–74 was a member of the legislature of Massachusetts. He was lieutenant‐governor of Massachusetts 1789–93 and governor until 1797. He was a second cousin of President John Adams.


From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
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4 July 1826
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1 November 1800
American President John Adams becomes the first American leader to move into the newly built White House.
3 December 1828
Andrew Jackson beats incumbent John Quincy Adams to be elected President of the United States.
 

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