List of people from Massachusetts

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Samuel Adams (1722-1803): Founding Father

John Adams (1735-1826): Founding Father, 2nd President of the United States

John Quincy Adams (1767-1848): 6th President of the United States

Charles Quincy Adams, Sr (1807-1886): Ambassador to the United Kingdom

Charles Quincy Adams, Jr. (1835-1915): U.S. Civil War General

Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (1833-1894): lawyer and politician

Ivers Whitney Adams (1838-1914): Founder of the basball team, the Boston Red Stockings

Henry Brook Adams (1838-1918): author, secretary to Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

Brooks Adams (1848-1927): historian

Charles Francis Adams III (1866-1954): 44th U.S. Secretary of Navy

Charles Francis Adams IV (1910-1999): industrialist, 1st president of Raytheon

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Nathan Bradley I (1631-1701): born in Dorchester, Boston in 1631

Samuel Bradlee: Constable of Dorchester

Nathaniel Bradlee: Boston Tea Party participant, member of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association

Sarah Bradlee (1740-1835): Dubbed the "Mother of the Boston Tea Party"

Josiah Bradlee I (1754-1798): Boston Tea Party participant m. Hannah Putnam

Josiah Bradlee III (1837-1902): millionaire, graduated from Havard, m. Alice Crowninshield

Frederick Josiah Bradlee I (1866-1951): Director of teh Boston Bank; graduated from Harvard

Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr. (1892-1970): Treasurer of Boston

John Brooks (c1752-1825): 11th Governer of Massachusetts

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Rufus Choate (1799-1859): U.S. Senator

Dr. George C.S. Choate (1827-1896): founder of the Choate Sanitarium in Pleasantville, New York

William Gardner Choate (1830-1920): U.S. Federal Judge, founder of Choate Rosemary Hall

Joseph Hodges Choate (1832-1917): U.S. Ambassador to England

Robert B. Choate, Jr. (1924-2009): businessman

Jacob Crowninshield (1770-1808): U.S. Congressman

Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (1772-1851): 5th U.S. Secretary of Navy

Arent Schuyler Crowninshield (1843-1908): U.S. Navy Admiral

Casper Crowninshield (1837-1897): Union Army Civil War General

Benjamin William Crowninshield (1837-1892): Union Army Civil War Colonel

Bowdin Bradlee Crowninshield (1867-1948): American Naval Architect

Francis "Frank" Welch Crowninshield (1872-1947): Creator and editor of Vanity Fair and Vogue magazines

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Elias Hasket Derby (1739-1799): "Father of the East India Trade"

Capt. John Derby (1741-): Delivered the news to England of the beginingg and ending of the American Revolution

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Benjamin Franklin, FRS (1706-1790) Founding Father

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John Hancock (1737-1793) Founding Father

Jonathan Hodges (1764-1837) Treasurer of Salem

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Rev. Cotton Mather, FRS (1663-1728): Colonial minister

Rev. Increase Mather (1639-1723): Colonial minister

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James Putnam (1725-1789): last Attorney General if Massachusetts before the America Revolution; judge and politicann in New Brunswick

Israel Putnam (1718-1790): American Revolution major general

James Putnam (1756-1838): Canadian politician

William Lowell Putnam (1861-1924): American lawyer and banker

Timothy Pickering (1745-1829): 3rd U.S. Secretary of State

Roger Lowell Putnam (1893-1972): politician, bussinessman

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Thomas Rice (1768-1854): Congressman

Luther Rice (1783-1836): Baptist clergyman, missionary to India

William Marsh Rice (1816-1900): businessman, founder of Rice University

Alexander Hamilton Rice (1818-1895): industrialist, Mayor of Boston, 30th Governor of Massachusetts

William Whitney Rice (1826-1896): Congressman, Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts

Brig. Gen. Edmund Rice (1842-1906): Civil War general, Medal of Honor recipient

William North Rice (1845-1928): geologist, educator

Alexander Hamilton Rice, Jr. (1875-1965): physician, geographer and explorer

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Col. Epes Sargent  (1690-1762)

Daniel Sargent, Sr. (1730-1806): Wealthy merchant, owner of Sargent's Wharf in Boston

Col. Paul Dudley Sargent (1745-1828): Revolution War hero and co-founder of Bowdoin College

John Sargent (1750-1824): American Revolution Loyalist officer

Maj. Winthrop Sargent (1753-1820): 1st governor of the Mississippi Territory

Daniel Sargent, Jr. (1764-1842): Merchant, politician

Col. Henry Sargent (1770-1845): painter and military man

Lucius Manlius Sargent (1786-1867): author, anitquarian and temperance advocate

Henry Winthrop Sargent (1810-1882): horticulturist and landscape gardner

Horace Binney Sargent (1821-1908): Civil War general, politician

Charles Sprague Sargent (1841-1927): botanist, first director of Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum

Epes Sargent (1813-1880): editor, poet and playwright

Francis Williams Sargent (1915-1998); 64th governor of Massachusetts

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John Kemble Tarbox (1838-1887): Representative

Frederic Tudor (1783-1864): Boston "Ice King," founder of the Tudor Ice Company