| Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution Subjects: Hutchinson Thomas 1711–1780; Governors -- Massachusetts -- Biography; United States -- History -- Revolution 1775–1783 -- Causes; Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period ca. 1600–1775; United States -- Politics and government -- To 1775; Rarely in American history has a political figure been so pilloried and despised as Thomas Hutchinson, Governor of Massachusetts and an ardent loyalist of the Crown in the days leading up to the American revolution. Walmsley Andrew Stephen : Andrew Stephen Walmsley is Instructor of U.S. History at Houston Community College. |