As an assemblyman, this man, known as "Skin-and-Bones," successfully pushed a bill to retire his colony's paper currency by using a payment made after the Louisbourg expedition.
As an assemblyman, this man, known as "Skin-and-Bones," successfully pushed a bill to retire his colony's paper currency by using a payment made after the Louisbourg expedition. Documents written by this man and his secretary led to a duel between William Whately and John Temple, with the latter accused of leaking this man's letters to the press. The brother-in-law of his second-in-command, Andrew Oliver, this person fled to Castle William after his home on (*) Garden Court Street was looted by a mob. For actually leaking this politician's letters, Benjamin Franklin was removed from his office as Postmaster General, although the public fixated on this administrator's suggestion to abridge "English liberties." He went to England after he was replaced by General Thomas Gage. For 10 points, name this governor of Massachusetts Bay during the Boston Tea Party.
As an assemblyman, this man, known as "Skin-and-Bones," successfully pushed a bill to retire his colony's paper currency by using a payment made after the Louisbourg expedition.
Thomas Hutchinson