What is Samuel Adams?
{{Infobox Governor |name= Samuel Adams |image= SamuelAdamsLarge.jpeg |order=4th Governor of Massachusetts |term_start= October 8, 1793 |term_end= June 2, 1797 |lieutenant= [[Moses Gill]] |predecessor= [[John Hancock]] |successor= [[Increase Sumner]] |birth_date= September 27, 1722 |birth_place= [[Boston, Massachusetts]] |death_date= {{death date and age|1803|10|2|1722|9|27}} |death_place= [[Boston, Massachusetts]] |spouse= Elizabeth Checkley, Elizabeth Wells |party= None }} '''Samuel Adams''' (September 27 ([[Gregorian calendar|OS]]), 1722 — October 2, 1803) was an [[United States|American]] leader, [[politician]], [[writer]], and political philosopher, and one of the [[Founding Fathers of the United States]]. Adams helped gather support in the [[Thirteen Colonies|American colonies]] to rebel against [[Great Britain]]. This led to the [[American Revolution]]. Adams also shaped the foundations of [[Politics of the United States|American politics]]. Born and raised in [[Boston, Massachusetts]], Adams was brought up in a religious family. He was educated at Boston Latin School and [[Harvard|Harvard College]]. He first became a businessman, but did not like it. He turned his interest instead to politics and became an influential political writer. In his writings, and at [[Town meeting|town meetings]] in Boston, Adams urged people to defend their rights and liberties, withdraw from Great Britain, and form a new government. Adams wrote protests against the taxes that [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] imposed on the colonies, like the [[Stamp Act]] of 1765. He helped to organize the [[Boston Tea Party]] in 1773 and was a member of the [[Continental Congress]]. At the Second Continental Congress in 1776, he argued for the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]]. Adams helped write the Massachusetts Constitution, along with James Bowdoin and his cousin [[John Adams]]. Later, Adams helped draft the [[Articles of Confederation]]. After the Revolutionary War ended, he r