Sam Adams
...because he had such a huge and profound effect on the era and location that he lived in. He lived through, and had a large impression on all the events that led up to the separation from Britain, along with surviving the war or independence, and ultimately served as the governor of a very important state in the young nation in which he lived. As his second cousin John Adams once said "Without him, in my opinion, American Independence could not have been declared in 1776"
One of the key trading ports back then was Boston, and that is where Sam Adams grew up. Founded barely a century before my the puritans, under the watchful eye on John Winthrop, the area still resonated with many of its puritan roots. However, the city was also growing fast, full of merchants, artisans and traders, and much of the early life of Massachusetts was faced with constant attacks from the French and Indians, which resulted in the French and Indian War from 1754-1763.
Then from 1765 and the Stamp Act until the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Sam Adams became at the forefront of political moves against Great Britain whenever the colonies were feeling threatened. The rebellion that Sam Adams and other Bostonians imposed upon Great Britain was a turning point in American History, and if not for this founding father, God knows where our country, culture, or government would be to this day.
The next decade marked a series of battles and confrontations against England and the colonies, led by Sam Adams and the Son of Liberty. At first, the writs of assistance, which basically meant that custom agents could be given bigger and better searching powers, then turned into the Sugar Act, which raised taxes for all the colonies. As Fowler states "Driven by a sense of covenant, he believed that the people of his community were bound to one another through a common history and...
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