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Also known as John Hancock III

American Patriot and statesman during the American Revolution (1737–1793)

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John Hancock was a male American statesperson, politician, merchant, and entrepreneur. Born in Braintree, he was educated at Boston Latin School and Harvard College. His political career included serving as President of the Continental Congress and Governor of Massachusetts. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, for which he received a fellowship. Hancock was affiliated with Congregational churches and spoke English.

He is buried at Granary Burying Ground. His archives are held at the New York Public Library Main Branch. Open Library lists him as an author of 58 works, including titles such as "Arguments to prove the being of God" and "The physical use of common water, recommended from France." He is described in the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.

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Key facts

Lieutenant
Samuel Adams
Preceded by
James Bowdoin
Succeeded by
Samuel Adams
Born
( 1737-01-23 ) January 23, 1737, Braintree , Province of Massachusetts Bay , British America (now Quincy )
Died
October 8, 1793 (1793-10-08) (aged 56), Hancock Manor , Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Resting place
Granary Burying Ground , Boston
Spouse
Dorothy Quincy ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1775 ) ​
Relatives
Quincy political family
Alma mater
Harvard University

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This page shows the immediate family group of John Hancock. It includes known parents and key genealogical details used to trace family relationships. 2 Barthelmas, Della Gray, The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference , Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (1997), 95-100. John Hancock died on 8 Oct 1793 in Hancock Manor, Beacon Hill, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. FamousKin.com lists documented famous kin and notable family connections for John Hancock when such relationships are available. See famous relatives of John Hancock . You can choose how your personal data is used. Vendors want your permission to do the following: Information about your activity on this service (such as forms you submit, content you look at) can be stored and combined with other information about you (for example, information from your previous activity on this service and other websites or apps) or similar users. This is then used to build or improve a profile about you (that might include possible interests and personal aspects). Your profile can be used (also later) to present advertising that appears more relevant based on your possible interests by this and other entities. Advertising presented to you on this service can be based on your advertising profiles, which can reflect your activity on this service or other websites or apps (like the forms you submit, content you look at), possible interests and personal aspects. Information about your activity on this service (for instance, forms you submit, non-advertising content you look at) can be stored and combined with other information about you (such as your previous activity on this service or other websites or apps) or similar users. This is then used to build or improve a profile about you (which might for example include possible interests and personal aspects). Your profile can be used (also later) to present content that appears more relevant based on your possible interests, such as by adapting the order in which content is shown to you, so that it is even easier for you to find content that matches your interests. Content presented to you on this service can be based on your content personalisation profiles, which can reflect your activity on this or other services (for instance, the forms you submit, content you look at), possible interests and personal aspects. This can for example be used to adapt the order in which content is shown to you, so that it is even easier for you to find (non-advertising) content that matches your interests. Information regarding which content is presented to you and how you interact with it can be used to determine whether the (non-advertising) content e.g. reached its intended audience and matched your interests. For instance, whether you read an article, watch a video, listen to a podcast or look at a product description, how long you spent on this service and the web pages you visit etc. This is very helpful to understand the relevance of (non-advertising) content that is shown to you. Information about your activity on this service, such as your interaction with ads or content, can be very helpful to improve products and services and to build new products and services based on user interactions, the type of audience, etc. This specific purpose does not include the development or improvement of user profiles and identifiers. Your data can be used to monitor for and prevent unusual and possibly fraudulent activity (for example, regarding advertising, ad clicks by bots), and ensure systems and processes work properly and securely. It can also be used to correct any problems you, the publisher or the advertiser may encounter in the delivery of content and ads and in your interaction with them. The choices you make regarding the purposes and entities listed in this notice are saved and made available to those entities in the form of digital signals (such as a strin

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
John
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Braintree
Occupation
statesperson
Educated at
Harvard College
Languages spoken
English language
Field of work
entrepreneurship
Image
John Hancock painting.jpg
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Commons category
John Hancock
date of birth
1736-01-12
date of death
1793-01-08
place of burial
Granary Burying Ground
name in native language
John Hancock
National Governors Association biography URL
www.nga.org/governor/john-hancock
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Encyclopedic overview

John Hancock (January 23, 1737 [O.S. January 12, 1736] – October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He was the longest-serving president of the Continental Congress, having served as the second president of the Second Continental Congress and the seventh president of the Congress of the Confederation. He was the first and third governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. His large and stylish signature on the United States Declaration of Independence led to John Hancock or Hancock becoming a colloquialism for a person's signature. He also signed the Articles of Confederation, and used his influence to ensure that Massachusetts ratified the United States Constitution in 1788.

Before the American Revolution, Hancock was one of the wealthiest men in the Thirteen Colonies, having inherited a profitable mercantile business from his uncle. He began his political career in Boston as a protégé of Samuel Adams, an influential local politician, though the two men later became estranged. Hancock used his wealth to support the colonial cause as tensions increased between colonists and Great Britain in the 1760s. He became very popular in Massachusetts, especially after Boston customs officials seized his sloop Liberty in 1768 and charged him with smuggling. Those charges were eventually dropped; he has often been described as a smuggler in historical accounts, but the accuracy of this characterization has been questioned.

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