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Andrew Oliver (March 28, 1706 – March 3, 1774) was an American-born merchant and colonial administrator in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Born into a wealthy and politically powerful merchant family, he is best known as the official responsible for implementing the provisions of the Stamp Act, for which he was hanged in effigy.
In the years after the enactment of the Townshend Acts, Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson and his colonial secretary and brother-in-law, Andrew Oliver, wrote a series of letters concerning the acts, the protests against them, and suggestions on how to respond to Thomas Whately, an assistant to British Prime Minister George Gren...
protest, Andrew Oliver, Sons of Liberty. Born in 1706, Andrew Oliver grew up among an affluent Boston family. His father, Daniel Oliver, made his fortune as a prosperous and politically active...
Andrew Oliver is a portrait of success in pre-revolutionary Boston. He was born into privilege and felt obligated to help people in his family succeed as well. Since he was successful and comfortable with the way the world worked, he did not want it to change.
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Dec 12, 2019 · The day did not start out well for Andrew Oliver. The recently appointed Stamp Act Distributor for colonial Massachusetts awoke on the morning of August 14, 1765, to learn that his effigy was hanging on an elm tree in Boston by a road that everyone who traveled into town had to pass by.
Andrew Oliver, a longstanding Massachusetts colonial officer, was responsible for enforcing the Stamp Act of 1765, which imposed a tax on all paper in the colony. Although he took the position reluctantly, viewing the act as a “public Misfortune,” Oliver became the target of violent protests that presaged the impending revolution.
