Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams Samuel Adams is one of America’s founding fathers and helped the nation come together at its beginnings. He was born on September 27, 1722 in Boston, Massachusetts. Adams was one of twelve children born to Samuel Adams, Sr., and Mary Adams; in an age of high infant mortality, only three of his siblings lived past their third birthday, luckily Samuel Adams was one of them to survive. Adams’s parents were devout Puritans, and members of the Old South Congregational Church. The family lived on Purchase Street in Boston. Adams was quite proud of his Puritan heritage, and emphasized Puritan values in his political career. He was the son of a merchant and brewer. He was an outstanding politician, a rather bad brewer, and not a very good businessman. Adams graduated from Harvard College in the early 1740’s. After he graduated he would soon become known as one of the leading figures in the American revolutionary. Samuel Adams was a political philosopher, a statesman, and became known as one of the Founding Fathers. As a politician in Massachusetts, he was a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution. He was also one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. Samuel was also one of the lead planners for the Boston tea party movement against the British. “How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words,” Samuel Adams. He was a second cousin to President John Adams; although they were not brothers people often referred to them as brothers calling them the Adams brothers or just simply saying the Adams. Samuel Adams early office as a tax collector for the British might have made it seem as if he was an agent for the British Crown, however Adams used his knowledge of these tax codes to help him while he was in Boston helping to plan the revolution. Samuel was a very inspirational and popular leader who, along with John Adams, spent a lot deal