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Samuel Adams September 27 [ O. September 16], — October 2, was an American statesman, political philosopher , and a Founding Father of the United States. He founded the Sons of Liberty. Adams was born in Boston , brought up in a religious and politically active family. A graduate of Harvard College , he was an unsuccessful businessman and tax collector before concentrating on politics.

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He was an influential official of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Boston Town Meeting in the s, and he became a part of a movement opposed to the British Parliament 's efforts to tax the British American colonies without their consent. His Massachusetts Circular Letter calling for colonial non-cooperation prompted the occupation of Boston by British troops, eventually resulting in the Boston Massacre of Adams and his colleagues devised a committee of correspondence system in to help coordinate resistance to what he saw as the British government's attempts to violate the British Constitution at the expense of the colonies, which linked like-minded Patriots throughout the Thirteen Colonies.

Continued resistance to British policy resulted in the Boston Tea Party and the coming of the American Revolution. Adams was actively involved with colonial newspapers publishing accounts of colonial sentiment over British colonial rule, which were fundamental in uniting the colonies. Parliament passed the Coercive Acts in , at which time Adams attended the Continental Congress in Philadelphia which was convened to coordinate a colonial response.

He helped guide Congress towards issuing the Continental Association in and the Declaration of Independence in , and he helped draft the Articles of Confederation and the Massachusetts Constitution.