Thomas hutchinson biography

Political Career

Hutchinson was born in Boston, a great-great-grandson of the seventeenth-century nonconformist Anne Hutchinson. His well-to-do merchant father sent him to Harvard College, where he graduated at age After graduation, he worked in maritime commerce and trading in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Hutchinson’s political career began in , when he was elected as a Boston selectman. Three months later, he became a member of the provincial legislature, where he served intermittently over the next two decades. He was also selected six times to participate in Indian conferences, and in was chosen as Speaker of the MassachusettsHouse of Representatives.

His most conspicuous service during this period came when the British government agreed to reimburse Massachusetts in gold for the cost of the successful military expedition against the French at Louisbourg during the French and Indian War. Hutchinson persuaded the legislature to use the specie to retire the province’s degrade

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