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"Thomas Cushing was a statesman, born in Boston on March 24, 1725. He
graduated from Harvard in 1744, and for many years represented his native
city in the General Court, of which body he became Speaker in 1763, and held
that post until 1774.
His signature was affixed, during all that time, to all public documents of
the province, which made his name so copious that, Dr. Samuel Johnson said
in his pamphlet, Taxation No Tyranny, 'One object of the Americans is
said to adorn the brows of Cushing with a diadem [crown].'
He was a member of the first and second Continental Congresses; was
commissary-general in 1775; a judge; and in 1779 was elected
lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts, which office he held until his death
in Boston, February 28, 1788.
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