Thomas Hutchinson Small 253×320 Medium 506×640 Large 809×1024 Download Tiff Original 1896×2400 | (5.2 MB) Description Thomas Hutchinson (September 9, 1711 - June 3, 1780) was the royal governor of Massachusetts from 1771 to 1774 and a prominent Loyalist in the years before the American Revolutionary War. Keywords American Revolutionary War, loyalist, portrait, royal governor of Massachusetts, USGovernor Galleries Famous People of Massachusetts, Famous People: H, US Governors Source: Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 4) (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1912)