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Born May 17, 1732 • Charlestown • Massachusetts
Died August 25, 1785 (aged 53) • Boston • Massachusetts
Role In Boston Tea Party
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William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison
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Joseph Pulitzer, detail of a portrait by C. de Grimm from The Curio, November 1887.
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American poet and journalist
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John S. Knight.
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Joseph Medill, detail of a lithograph by J.O. Ottomann Company, 1893.
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Ely Moore
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Frederick Gilmer Bonfils
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