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Website. www.johnhancock.com. John Hancock Life Insurance Company, U.S.A. is a Boston -based insurance company. Established April 21, 1862, it was named in honor of John Hancock, a prominent American Patriot . In 2004, Canadian multinational life insurance company Manulife Financial acquired John Hancock and operates it as an independent ...
Manulife Financial Corporation. Manulife Financial Corporation (also known as Financière Manuvie in Quebec) is a Canadian multinational insurance company and financial services provider headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The company operates in Canada and Asia as "Manulife" and in the United States primarily through its John Hancock Financial ...
John Hancock. John Hancock (January 23, 1737 [ O.S. January 12, 1736] – October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. [1] He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Winfield Scott Hancock. Winfield Scott Hancock (February 14, 1824 – February 9, 1886) was a United States Army officer and the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1880. He served with distinction in the Army for four decades, including service in the Mexican–American War and as a Union general in the American Civil War.
John Hancock and his signature are two of the best-known elements related to the Declaration of Independence. But how much do you know about the former president of the Continental Congress?
HMS. Liberty. (1768) Liberty was a sloop owned by John Hancock, an American merchant, whose seizure was the subject of the Liberty Affair. Seized by customs officials in Boston in 1768, it was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Liberty, and she was burned the next year by American colonists in Newport, Rhode Island in one of the first acts ...
July 17, 1971. The Hancock–Clarke House is a historic house in Lexington, Massachusetts, which is now a National Historic Landmark. Built in 1738, the house is notable as one of two surviving houses associated with statesman and Founding Father John Hancock, who lived here for several years as a child. It is the only residence associated with ...
He was arrested in late 1786 on charges of treason, but was pardoned in 1787 by Governor John Hancock. Early life in Groton and military service [ edit ] Shattuck was born in the rural central Massachusetts town of Groton in 1736, not long after the final Indian raids and skirmishes that had so often embattled the town during its early colonial ...