Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and other founding documents, and one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to his fellow Founding Father, President John Adams.

27 September 1722

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Born in the same month (September 1722): Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony • Gabriel Christie (British Army officer)