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John Hancock
1st and 3rd Governor of Massachusetts, 1780–1785, 1787–1793
President
,
Second Continental Congress, 1775–1777, 1785-1786
Boston Board of Selectmen, 1766–1775
United States
Founding events
HMS
Liberty
confiscation
Sons of Liberty
Co-inspired, Boston Tea Party
1774 Massacre Day speech
President, Massachusetts Provincial Congress
Chairman, Massachusetts Committee of Safety
Presided over, signed, United States Declaration of Independence
(signing
Dunlap broadside)
Signed, Articles of Confederation
1788 Massachusetts Compromise
Life
Early life
Hancock–Clarke House
Hancock Manor
Massachusetts Hall, Harvard University
Boston Cadets
Co-founder, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
United States presidential election, 1788–89
Granary Burying Ground
Related
American Revolution
patriots
Founding Father
Syng inkstand
Legacy
1776
(
1969 musical
,
1972 film
)
Liberty's Kids
(2002 animated series)
John Adams
(2008 miniseries)
Sons of Liberty
(2015 miniseries)
USS
Hancock
, 1775
USS
Hancock
, 1776
USS
John Hancock
(1850)
USS
Hancock
(1944)
USS
John Hancock
(1977)
John Hancock Center
John Hancock Tower
Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Family
Dorothy Quincy (wife)
John Hancock Jr. (father)
Thomas Hancock (uncle)
John Hancock Sr. (grandfather)
Edmund Quincy (father-in-law)