John hancock
Founding Fathers Paper
Throughout United States’ history, many great and skillful individuals single handedly changed the direction of our nation’s fate. Individuals such as George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Junior, and John F. Kennedy are people who are remembered the most frequently. There are however individuals who established a country to begin with for others to help lead and guide, yet somehow they are the most forgotten. There’s one unsung hero, who most most only recognize as a signature on a legal contract, or as the ad for another house insurance company. That undermined founding father, was John Hancock.
Before the American Revolution, before being one of the wealthiest merchants in all of the 13 colonies, and before even having a political profession, Hancock’s journey embarked by working as a clerk in his uncle’s mercantile shipping business. He learned it swiftly, and one day in the year of 1761, Hancock took a voyage to London to observe how business ran in England. In his travels, Hancock had the pleasure of watching the funeral of George II and the coronation of his future adversary, George III.
In 1763, Hancock became an official partner of his Uncle Thomas in the business, which was abruptly ended by the death of his uncle around a year later. With his uncle’s death came his uncle’s will, which granted his 27-year-old nephew control over his entire mercantile shipping business and 50,000 pounds in cash (“President”).
When Hancock returned back to the America, he found that his countrymen were in political and economic turmoil with new taxes such as the Sugar and Stamp Acts. As protests against the Sugar Act and Stamp Act developed, it was more the economic impact rather than the dilemma of a constitutional affair of taxation without representation that was the main focus for the colonists. This focus was brought on by the Seven Years War the colonists fought. Hancock in turn decided to play on his only
Throughout United States’ history, many great and skillful individuals single handedly changed the direction of our nation’s fate. Individuals such as George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Junior, and John F. Kennedy are people who are remembered the most frequently. There are however individuals who established a country to begin with for others to help lead and guide, yet somehow they are the most forgotten. There’s one unsung hero, who most most only recognize as a signature on a legal contract, or as the ad for another house insurance company. That undermined founding father, was John Hancock.
Before the American Revolution, before being one of the wealthiest merchants in all of the 13 colonies, and before even having a political profession, Hancock’s journey embarked by working as a clerk in his uncle’s mercantile shipping business. He learned it swiftly, and one day in the year of 1761, Hancock took a voyage to London to observe how business ran in England. In his travels, Hancock had the pleasure of watching the funeral of George II and the coronation of his future adversary, George III.
In 1763, Hancock became an official partner of his Uncle Thomas in the business, which was abruptly ended by the death of his uncle around a year later. With his uncle’s death came his uncle’s will, which granted his 27-year-old nephew control over his entire mercantile shipping business and 50,000 pounds in cash (“President”).
When Hancock returned back to the America, he found that his countrymen were in political and economic turmoil with new taxes such as the Sugar and Stamp Acts. As protests against the Sugar Act and Stamp Act developed, it was more the economic impact rather than the dilemma of a constitutional affair of taxation without representation that was the main focus for the colonists. This focus was brought on by the Seven Years War the colonists fought. Hancock in turn decided to play on his only