{"id":20893,"date":"2026-04-02T10:24:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20893"},"modified":"2026-03-23T10:57:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:57:46","slug":"the-founders-samuel-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20893","title":{"rendered":"The Founders: Samuel Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Samuel Adams<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samuel Adams<\/a> was born in Massachusetts in 1722 into a wealthy family and entered politics soon after graduating from Harvard. He was the founder of the “Sons of Liberty” and perhaps coined the phrase: “No taxation without representation.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Samuel Adams <\/a>is perhaps best known today for the craft beer named in his honor. He was a delegate, from Massachusetts, to the Continental Convention and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He is one of the better known signers of the Declaration and many books and articles are available about his courageous and productive life. I might read one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Samuel Adams \u201cThe Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.\u201d Samuel Adams was born in Massachusetts in 1722 into a wealthy family and entered politics soon after graduating from Harvard. He was the founder of the “Sons of Liberty” and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1543,11],"tags":[1541,311,1567],"class_list":["post-20893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-founding-fathers","category-politics","tag-founding-fathers","tag-politics","tag-samuel-adams"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-23-at-10.15.15-AM.png?fit=852%2C1356&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5qZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20894,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20893\/revisions\/20894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}