Samuel Adams
9/27/1722 – 10/2/1803
Father of the American Revolution
Clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1766 – 1774
Delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress 1774 – 1781
President of the Massachusetts Senate 1782 – 1785 and 1787–1788
3rd Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts 1789 – 1793
4th Governor of Massachusetts 1793 – 1797
Father of the American Revolution
Clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1766 – 1774
Delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress 1774 – 1781
President of the Massachusetts Senate 1782 – 1785 and 1787–1788
3rd Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts 1789 – 1793
4th Governor of Massachusetts 1793 – 1797
Founding Fathers
" The rights of the colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the instruction of the great lawgiver and head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament. ( From The Rights of Colonists, 1772 )
" He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all… Our forefathers opened the Bible to all. "
( American Independence, August 1, 1776. Speech delivered at the State House in Philadelphia )
" Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity and leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system. " ( October 4, 1790 )
" He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all… Our forefathers opened the Bible to all. "
( American Independence, August 1, 1776. Speech delivered at the State House in Philadelphia )
" Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity and leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system. " ( October 4, 1790 )
