A physician, politician, and patriot leader representing the early American Revolution. Collaborating with Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and others to advance anti-British movements, he was involved in organizing the Committees of Correspondence and drafting the Suffolk Resolves. In 1775, he was known for dispatching Paul Revere to warn of British troop advances. Killed in action at the Battle of Bunker Hill in the same year, he was called a "Martyr of the Revolution."

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