Samuel Adams' Death
Born (Birthday) September 27, 1722
Death Date October 2, 1803
Age of Death 81 years
Cause of Death essential tremor
Place of Death Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profession Politician
The politician Samuel Adams died at the age of 81. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Founding Father and brewer who helped organize the Boston Tea Party. He helped draft the Articles of Confederation and the Massachusetts Constitution and he was the 4th Governor of Massachusetts from 1794 to 1797.
He wrote a thesis which strongly hinted at his colonial-rights political views.
The beer company named after him was not founded by him, but was created in 1985.
His second cousin was President John Adams. He had one son, Samuel Adams Jr., who died during the American Revolution.
Thomas Jefferson wrote that Adams was “truly the Man of the Revolution.”
How did Samuel Adams die?
Adams suffered from what is now believed to have been essential tremor, a movement disorder that rendered him unable to write in the final decade of his life. He died at the age of 81 on October 2, 1803, and was interred at the Granary Burying Ground in Boston.Quotes
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
"I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
"Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
"Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
"We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.