Andrew Oliver

Andrew Oliver

Andrew Oliver (March 28, 1706 - March 3, 1774) was a Massachusetts politician. He was the son of Daniel and Elizabeth Belcher Oliver. He had two brothers: Daniel (1704-1727) and Peter (1713-1791). Andrew graduated from Harvard College in 1726.

Oliver was the man commissioned to enforce the Stamp Act in Massachusetts. However, Oliver was forced to resign after repeated violence from the colonists in Boston - an effigy of him was hung up at the future Liberty Tree on August 14, 1765 by Boston's "The Loyal Nine" and that night his Boston house was ransacked by the Sons of Liberty. On August 15th he resigned his commission, and was made to resign again publicly when the stamps actually arrived in Boston. He was brother of Massachusetts Justice Peter Oliver and nephew of Governor Jonathan Belcher. He served as Lieutenant-Governor under his brother-in-law, Thomas Hutchinson, and died in office.

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