Andrew Oliver

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Andrew Oliver (1706-1774) 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 "Loyal Nine" and that night his Boston house was destroyed by the mob. 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.