Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, was born in the eighteenth century in Boston, Massachusetts, then a part of the British Colony. The son of an influential member of the Boston Caucus, he became interested in politics during his student days at Harvard. After graduation, he tried to go into a number of professions, but each of them failed due to his involvement in politics. Attaining his first political appointment at the age of twenty-four, he entered the Boston Caucus upon his father’s death a couple of years later. Gradually, as Britain enacted a number of acts that went against the interest of the colonists, he started a movement that later evolved into the American Revolution, paving the way for the country’s independence. Later he contributed significantly to the formation of the American republicanism and was instrumental in the inclusion of the bill of rights into the new constitution. After his death, the members of Massachusetts as well as the federal legislatures wore mourning bands in his honor for the rest of the year.