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  Samuel Adams (governor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samuel Adams (5 June 1805 - 27 February 1850) was a Democratic Governor of the State of Arkansas.
Samuel Adams was born in Halifax County, Virginia.
Adams was self-taught and moved to Arkansas in 1835.
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 SAMUEL ADAMS - LoveToKnow Article on SAMUEL ADAMS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
His father, whose Christian name was also Samuel, was a wealthy and prominent citizen of Boston, who took an active part in the politics of the town, and was a member of the Caucus (or Caulker's) Club, with which the political term "caucus" is said to have originated; his mother was Mary Fifield.
Samuel Adams first came into wider prominence at the beginning of the Stamp Act episode, in 1764, when as author of Boston's instructions to its representatives in the general court of Massachusetts he urged strenuous opposition to taxation by act of parliament.
In 1788, Samuel Adams was a member of the Massachusetts convention to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
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 Samuel Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adams, in the meantime, became tax collector of Boston and was vocal in town meetings, which brought him significant political influence among his peers.
Adams was one of the major proponents of the Suffolk Resolves drafted in response to the Intolerable Acts, and adopted in September 1774.
Adams died at the age of 81 and was interred at the Granary Burying Ground in Boston.
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 Samuel Adams
The former was grandfather of President John Adams; the latter was grandfather of Samuel Adams, the statesman.
Adams was appointed chairman of a committee to communicate the votes of the town meeting to the governor and council.
When Adams presented the demand of the town meeting that the soldiers should be removed to the castle in the harbor, Hutchinson at first disclaimed any authority in the matter; but Adams reminded him that as acting governor of Massachusetts he was commander-in-chief of all troops within the province.
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 MSN Encarta - Samuel Adams
As such he was a consistent and bitter opponent of Thomas Hutchinson, an aristocratic political leader, who served as the lieutenant governor of the colony from 1758 to 1771 and as royal governor from 1771 to 1774.
Adams was a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, which convened at Philadelphia in May 1775, and he subsequently signed the Declaration of Independence.
In 1779, Adams was a member of the committee that drafted the Massachusetts State constitution, and he was instrumental also in securing the ratification by Massachusetts of the U.S. Constitution in 1788.
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 The Patriot Resource: Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams' father, Old Samuel Adams, was a deacon in the Old South Church in Boston.
Samuel was born in Boston on September 27, 1722.
Adams drafted the Massachusetts Circular Letter, which was adopted by the Massachusetts House of Representatives on February 11, 1768.
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 Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, the son of a prominent landowner and brewer, and cousin and political mentor of John Adams.
In 1765, Adams was elected to the General Court (legislature) of Massachusetts, representing the town of Boston.
Adams' views became radical after the British closed the port of Boston and quartered soldiers in the city in 1774.
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 Samuel Adams (governor) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Samuel Adams (5 June 1805 - 27 February 1850) was a (additional info and facts about Democratic) Democratic (The head of a state government) Governor of the State of (A state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War) Arkansas.
Samuel Adams was born in (additional info and facts about Halifax County, Virginia) Halifax County, Virginia.
Adams is buried in the historic (additional info and facts about Mount Holly Cemetery) Mount Holly Cemetery in (additional info and facts about Little Rock, Arkansas) Little Rock, Arkansas.
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 Samuel Adams: Re-Evaluating a Journalistic Calvinist
Adams typically composed his columns after evening prayers; his wife Elizabeth would go to bed but would sometimes awaken in the middle of the night and hear only the sound of her husband's quill pen scratching on and on.
Adams was a traditional New Englander in his theology and style of living: John Adams called Samuel the Calvin of his day, and "a Calvinist" to the core.
Samuel Adams had his counterparts in other colonies: Cornelius Harnett was called "the Samuel Adams of North Carolina" and Charles Thomson was called "the Samuel Adams of Philadelphia."[46] But Adams himself was the best at taking Bible-based theories and heightening them journalistically.
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 iBoston - Your Guide to Massachusetts History
Samuel Adams was the son of a brewer, and as such, became one himself.
After 1770, Adams was the leader in the creation of "intercolonial committees of correspondence to sustain the spirit of resistance." In that spirit, he was a principal organizer of the Boston Tea Party (1773).
Adams addressed the State House in Philadelphia on August 1, 1776, shortly after the Declaration of Independence, where he gave a typically impassioned speech on why independence must and should be fought for.
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 Samuel Adams
Samuel and John Adams' names are almost synonymous in all accounts of the Revolution that grew, largely, out of Boston.
Samuel Adams was born in Boston, son of a merchant and brewer.
Adams retired from the Congress in 1781 and returned to Massachusetts to become a leading member of that states convention to form a constitution.
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 Adams, Samuel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
As colonial resistance to British laws stiffened, Adams spoke for the discontented and replaced James Otis as leader of the extremists.
He drafted a protest against the Stamp Act in 1765 and was one of the organizers of the non-importation agreement (1767) against Great Britain to force repeal of the Townshend Acts.
Samuel Adams was a member (1774–81) of the Continental Congress, but after independence was declared his influence declined; the “radical” was replaced by more conservative leaders, who tended to look upon Adams as an irresponsible agitator.
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 Samuel Adams
Born in Boston on September 27, 1722, Samuel Adams entered Harvard at the age of 14 and received his degree in 1740.
Adams led the opposition to the Sugar Act in 1764, the Stamp Act of 1765, and the Townshend Acts of 1767.
Adams served as a member of the Massachusetts General Court from 1765 to 1775 and as a member of the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1781, where he voted for and signed the Declaration of Independence.
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 SAMUELADAMS
Boston native, Samuel Adams, was born in 1722 to a prosperous brewing and land owning family.
Adams explored numerous occupations, but he lacked the inclination to hold down a normal, steady job.
The Tea Act, passed in 1773, pulled Adams into the fray once more, and it is believed that he participated in the Boston Tea Party which took place not long after.
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 Reader's Companion to American History - -ADAMS, SAMUEL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The son of a Boston merchant and maltster, Adams was a 1740 graduate of Harvard College where he publicly defended the thesis that it is "lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved." Adherence to this principle was ever afterward a central theme in his career.
It was Samuel Adams who conceived of the Boston Committee of Correspondence and took a leading role in its formation and operations from 1772 through 1774.
Uniformly respected, though not always liked, Samuel Adams was, in John Adams's words, "born and tempered a wedge of steel to split the knot of lignum vitae" that bound America to Britain.
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 Sam Adams
Samuel Adams was born in Boston on Sept. 17th, 1722, and died on Oct. 2nd, 1803.
Adams organized the protest against the Stamp Act (1765) and was a founder of the Sons of Liberty.
Samuel Adams remained in Congress until 1781, participating in the drafting of the Articles of Confederation.
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Samuel Adams was born in Boston, Massachusetts on September 27
In 1765, Adams was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Adams himself was reelected to the House that hears and represented Boston continuously until 1774.
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 Samuel Adams
Samuel believed the colonists had a right to elect their own government officials and he began to convince others about their rights for fairness, justice and representation.
Samuel proposed a meeting with representatives of all the colonies to discuss their problems with the British Parliament.
Samuel continued to represent the people of Boston, and he ultimately served as president of the Massachusetts Senate.
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When Samuel Adams completed his studies, he became a clerk in the counting house of Thomas Cushing, a distinguished merchant.
Even though Samuel Adams did not fight in the Revolutionary War, he was still a major figure.
The Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, Thomas Hutchinson, feared it was a declaration of independence from England.
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 Account of a Declaration; Biographies
Adams became a prominent public figure in his activities against the Stamp Act, in response to which he wrote and published a popular article, Essay on the Canon and Feudal Law.
Adams was a very active member of congress, he was engaged by as many as ninety committees and chaired twenty-five during the second Continental Congress.
Samuel Chase was born in Maryland on the seventeenth of April, 1741.
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 Samuel Adams | American Patriot & Politician
Samuel Adams was born in Boston, Massachusetts on September 27, 1722.
Adams served Massachusetts again at the Second Continental Congress where he was an advocate for independence and confederation for the American Colonies.
Adams served as Governor of Massachusetts from 1793 to 1797.
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 Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Government State Capital Boston Governor Mitt Romney Massachusetts State Motto
The Governor is head of the executive branch and serves as chief administrative officer of the state and as commander-in-chief of the Massachusetts' military forces.
His or her responsibilities include preparation of the annual budget, nomination of all judicial officers, the granting of pardons (with the approval of the governor's Council), appointments of the heads of most major state departments, and the acceptance or veto of each bill passed by the Legislature.
Governor Samuel Adams, assisted by Paul Revere, laid the cornerstone of the new State House on July 4, 1795.
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 Samuel Adams
ADAMS (SAMUEL), governor of Massachusetts, and a most distinguished patriot in the American revolution, was born in Boston of a reputable family, Sep. 27, 1722.
Adams was not taken off from his opposition by an office, writes to a friend in England, "Such is the obstinacy and inflexible disposition of the man, that he never can be conciliated by any office or gift whatever."
John Adams, then vice president of the United States, in which the principles of government are discussed, and there seems to have been some difference of sentiment between those eminent patriots and statesmen, who had toiled together through the revolution.
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Encouraged by Samuel Adams, he headed a citizens' committee, which called on Thomas Hutchinson to remove English troops from Boston.
Governor Hancock continued to be reelected annually with victory margins frequently well above eighty percent.
He died in office in 1793 and was succeeded by his friend, Lieutenant Governor Samuel Adams.
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 Adams
Governors have no right to seek and take what they please; by this, instead of being content with the station assigned them, that of honorable servants of the society, they would soon become absolute masters, despots, and tyrants.
The drafting of the first was assigned to Samuel Adams, the second to Joseph Warren, and the last to Benjamin Church.
The person alluded to by Governor Hutchinson, as "the great director in England," was Dr. Franklin, and it is insinuated that he was in effect the author of the report, but this is in no sense true; nor did he wholly approve the measures adopted at that meeting.
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 Adams, Samuel on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Samuel Adams was a member (1774-81) of the Continental Congress, but after independence was declared his influence declined; the “radical” was replaced by more conservative leaders, who tended to look upon Adams as an irresponsible agitator.
This is No Joking Matter: Samuel Adams Wants New York City to Taste The World's Best-Tasting Light Beer for a Worthy Cause.
Paul Revere and Paul Revere are buried in BostonÕs Granary Burial Ground, not far from the graves of Samuel Adams and the five victims of the Boston Massacre.
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 Thomas Paine
uel Adams was born in 1722 and died in 1803.
Adams used the Boston Massacre as another weapon against the British.
Lots of people thought that Adams was too much of a troublemaker for the new country.
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 Guide to Selected Manuscript Collections
Samuel Adams, Governor of Arkansas, Little Rock, certifying the election, August 31, in Bayou, Bartholomew Township, of Elihu K. James, Charles Beeks, and Israel I. Montgomery as, respectively, captain, first lieutenant, and second lieutenant of the Bartholomew Township
Materials pertain particularly to his administration as Governor of Arkansas, 1913-1917, especially as regards the Southern Governors' Cotton Convention of 1915; the collection of and extension of payments of state taxes due, 1915-1916; proposed prohibition legis lation, 1916; and controversies surrounding the State Penitentiary and the State Hospital for Nervous Diseases, 1914-1915.
William and Mary Fulsom to Governor of Territory of Missouri, May 28, 1819, in estate of Ebenezer Fulsom, and James Jackson to John Pope, Governor of Territory of Arkansas, August 19, 1829, in estate of Elijah H. Barton.
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 Samuel Adams --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
A cousin of John Adams, he graduated from Harvard College in 1740 and briefly practiced law.
He was later lieutenant governor (1789–93) and governor (1794–97) of Massachusetts.
The town of North Adams is 5 miles (8 kilometers) to the north.
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 Samuel Adams - TheBestLinks.com - Sam Adams, American football, Beer, United States, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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Samuel Adams is also a brand of beer, named for the revolutionary; see Samuel Adams (beer).
A United States naval officer; see Samuel Adams (naval officer).
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