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Adams, Samuel

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Adams, Samuel (1722-1803)

US politician, the chief instigator of the Boston Tea Party (see American Revolution). He was a signatory to the Declaration of Independence, served in the Continental Congress, and anticipated the French emperor Napoleon in calling the British a ‘nation of shopkeepers’.

Adams took the colonists' side in the disturbances caused by the Stamp Act 1765, and in 1765-74 was a member of the legislature of Massachusetts. He was lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts 1789-93 and governor until 1797. He was a second cousin of President John Adams.


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Eight American composers will also be represented under Salonen: John Adams, Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, Jerry Goldsmith, David Newman and John Williams.
Additionally, the club claimed some of the most important political figures of the Massachusetts struggle against Great Britain: John and Samuel Adams, Samuel Cooper, Thomas Cushing, John Hancock, James Otis, Josiah Quincy, and Joseph Warren (Mott 76).
 
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