SAMUEL ADAMS 1722 1803 POLITICAL LEADER ADAMS SAMUEL 1722 1803 COLONIES REVOLUTIONARY WAR TAXES U.S GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTION BORN IN BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS SAMUEL ADAMS GRADUATED FROM HARVARD COLLEGE IN 1740 HE WORKED IN PRIVATE BUSINESS AND AS A PUBLIC EMPLOYEE IN 1764 ADAMS BECAME INVOLVED IN POLITICS WHEN HE OPPOSED THE SUGAR ACT THE FOLLOWING YEAR HE ORGANIZED THE SONS OF LIBERTY AND LED THE OPPOSITION TO THE STAMP ACT FROM 1765 UNTIL 1774 ADAMS SERVED IN THE MASSACHUSETTS COLONIAL LEGISLATURE A TIRELESS ORGANIZER AND PASSIONATE WRITER ADAMS RECRUITED OTHER INFLUENTIAL CITIZENS INCLUDING HIS COUSIN JOHN ADAMS TO THE PATRIOT CAUSE IN 1770 ADAMS LED THE PATRIOT RESPONSE TO THE BOSTON MASSACRE AND IN 1773 HE PLANNED THE BOSTON TEA PARTY FROM 1774 UNTIL 1781 ADAMS SERVED AS A MEMBER OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS HE LATER OPPOSED THE RATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION BECAUSE HE BELIEVED THAT IT SHOULD INCLUDE A BILL OF RIGHTS BEFORE IT WAS APPROVED ADAMS WAS DEFEATED IN THE FIRST ELECTION FOR THE U.S HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HE WAS ELECTED MASSACHUSETTS'S LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR IN 1789 AND ITS GOVERNOR IN 1794 IN 1797 HE RETIRED TO PRIVATE LIFE
