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John Hancock

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

Person · Open Library

Born: 1736-01-12
Died: 1793-01-08
Works: 58

Top works

Are the courts destroying the double indemnity and accidental death benefit?
Arianism not the primitive Christianity
Fairburn's edition of the trial between Captain Peter and John Hancock, wholesale grocer
Arguments to prove the being of God
The physical use of common water, recommended from France

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Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1940-04-12

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Listeners: 2,052
Total plays: 9,923

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5 total works indexed

Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,169x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,509x
Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,302x
Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,187x
The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,819x

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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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Key dates

Born: 12 January 1736
Died: 8 January 1793

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: John
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Braintree
Occupation: politician
Position held: Governor of Massachusetts
Educated at: Harvard College
Languages spoken: English language
Religion: Congregational churches

Article

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.