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Born August 7, 1726 • Boston • Massachusetts
Died November 6, 1790 (aged 64) • Boston • Massachusetts
Title / Office governor (1785-1787), Massachusetts
Founder American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Role In Shays’s Rebellion
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