Samuel Lee Adams: US Governor, Statesman

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I did my biography on Samuel Lee Adams. Some quick facts about him is he was a U.S. Governor, Statesman. He was born on September 27, 1722 in Boston, Massachusetts. He went to Harvard College and graduated as the class of 1740. He died on October 2, 1803 in Boston, Massachusetts. Samuel Adams was born on September 27, 1722 in Boston, Massachusetts. He went to Harvard and was a 1740 graduate. When he was done with college he was a failed brewer and newspaper publisher before becoming one of the independent movement’s leaders. When the revolution started he became an organizer for the Boston’s Sons of Liberty and helped coordinate the Boston Tea Party of 1773. In his early life he failed as a brewer and a newspaper publisher,

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