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SAMUEL ADAMS

Samuel Adams was an American politician. He was born in 1722 at Boston, Massachusetts and died in 1803. A second cousin to John Adams, the second President of the USA, Samuel Adams was educated at Harvard and briefly studied law. After failing in business and as a tax collector, he became politically involved in Massachusetts, campaigning against taxation from Britain and played a role instigating the Stamp Act riots in Boston. A later signatory of the Declaration of Independence, he was lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 1789 to 1794 and governor from 1794 until 1797.
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