Samuel Adams

Public Office Contact

This Page records historical service. Historical office contact details have not been verified; the official resources below provide institutional information.

Official Resources

• Massachusetts Governor’s Office

Sources and Verification

Last Reviewed: October 18th, 2026

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• A New Nation Votes: Massachusetts 1796 Governor — Election date/year, candidate list, final result, notes, references
• Adams Family Correspondence, volume 12: Thomas Welsh to Abigail Adams, June 2, 1797 — Letter and editorial note 3
• Massachusetts Constitution, 1780, chapter II, section I, article II; chapter I, section III, article III — Historical text and amendment notes
• Portraits of the governors of Massachusetts, 1629–1894 — Catalog/contents lists Pictures 21: Samuel Adams, Mass. Governor, 1794–1797; #21; PDF metadata Title and Author Lintern; created Dec. 16, 2010
• Samuel Adams, acting governor address Jan. 17, 1794 — Editorial note explicitly calls him lieutenant governor and acting governor at Jan. 17 address
• Adams Family Correspondence, vol. 12, page 138 (Thomas Welsh to Abigail Adams, June 2, 1797) — Text says Sumner “is to be introduced into office at 12 O’Clock this Day”; editorial note says Sumner and Moses Gill were sworn in June 2, 1797
• Samuel Adams — About says left office June 2, 1797; conflicts with annual almanac listing successor beginning June 7; hold exact date
• 1796 Massachusetts gubernatorial election dataset — Samuel Adams result listing; dataset beta status in existing record
• Jurisdiction Artwork source

• Scheduled Final Term: Annual election/term character comes from the 1780 Constitution; exact start day for Adams’s final annual term is not established here.
• Service Began: This Page covers the elected governorship. The earlier acting-governor period remains separate; the individual 1794 oath day is unverified.
• Service Ended: The date is the successor transition boundary: the Adams Papers edition documents Sumner and Gill being sworn in on June 2nd.
• Last Election for This Office: The edition identifies Adams as the highest vote-getter and describes its Massachusetts data as beta. The cited original return has not been independently examined; no vote total is presented here.