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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MarylandCharles (of Carrollton) CARROLL
(1737-1832)
Senate Years of Service:
1789-1792Party: Pro-AdministrationCARROLL, Charles (of
Carrollton), (cousin of Charles Carroll, the Barrister, and
Daniel Carroll), a Delegate and a Senator from Maryland; born in
Annapolis, Md., September 19, 1737; attended the Jesuits’
College of Bohemia at Hermans Manor, Md., and the College of St.
Omer in France; studied civil law at the College of Louis le Grand
in Rheims, and common law in London; returned to Annapolis, Md., in
1765; delegate to the revolutionary convention of Maryland in 1775;
Continental commissioner to Canada in 1776; member of the Board of
War 1776-1777; Delegate to the Continental Congress 1776-1778;
again elected to the Continental Congress in 1780, but declined to
serve; was a signer of the Declaration of Independence; member,
State senate 1777-1800; elected to the United States Senate in
1789; reelected in 1791 and served from March 4, 1789, to November
30, 1792, when, preferring to remain a State senator, he resigned
because of a law passed by the Maryland legislature disqualifying
the members of the State senate who held seats in Congress; retired
to private life in 1801; involved in establishing the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad Company in 1828; died in Baltimore, Md.,
November 14, 1832; at the time of his death was the last surviving
signer of the Declaration of Independence; interment in the chapel
of Doughoregan Manor, near Ellicott City, Howard County, Md.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Hanley, Thomas
O’Brien. Charles Carroll of Carrollton: The Making of a
Revolutionary Gentleman. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University
of America Press, 1970; Smith, Ellen H. Charles Carroll of
Carrollton. 1942. Reprint. New York: Russell and Russell,
1971.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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