Samuel Adams (American, 1722 to 1803)
Born in 1722, Patriot Sam Adams gained fame as being the chief agitator of the Boston Tea Party. He served as a tax collector in Boston from 1756 to 1764 and from 1765 to 1774 was a member of the Massachusetts legislature.
Adams organized resistance to the British Stamp Act in 1765 and founded the Boston Committee of Correspondence in 1772. He was a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses and signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
After the Revoluntary war ended Adams served as Governor of Massachusetts from 1794-97. He died in 1803.