Samuel Shaw

Samuel Shaw
In the winter of 1777, during the Revolutionary War, Samuel Shaw and Third Lieutenant Richard Marven blew the whistle on Commodore Esek Hopkins for torturing British prisoners of war. Initially, Hopkins filed a criminal libel against them and both were jailed. After creating a petition arguing their good intentions, however, Congress not only complied but created the US’s first whistle-blower protection law. [1 ]