Thomas Hutchinson
✓ Source-basedrisingLast civilian Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, historian (1711-1780)
Thomas Hutchinson was an American merchant, politician, historian, and colonial administrator who repeatedly served as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the years leading up to the American Revolution.
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Margaret Sanford Hutchinson, wife of Thomas Hutchinson (1750)
Hutchinson painting (1750)
Portrait of William Shirley by Thomas Hudson, 1750
Governor Thomas Pownall
John Adams (portrait by Charles Willson Peale) was opposed to Hutchinson's ascent to the highest judicial post in the province.
Hutchinson house, Garden Court Street, North End, Boston
A proclamation issued by Hutchinson in 1771Politicians born in the 1710s 6
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Thomas Hutchinson was an American merchant, politician, historian, and colonial administrator who repeatedly served as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the years leading up to the American Revolution. He has been described as "the most important figure on the loyalist side in pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts". Hutchinson was a successful merchant and politician who was active at high levels of the Massachusetts colonial government for many years, serving as lieutenant governor and then governor from 1758 to 1774. He was a politically polarizing figure who came to be identified by John Adams and Samuel Adams as a supporter of unpopular British taxes, despite his initial opposition to Parliamentary tax laws directed at the colonies. Hutchinson was blamed by British Prime Minister Lord North for being a significant contributor to the tensions that led to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.
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