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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ConnecticutRoger SHERMAN
(1721-1793)
Senate Years of Service:
1791-1793Party: Pro-AdministrationSHERMAN, Roger,
(father-in-law of Samuel Hoar and Simeon Baldwin, grandfather of
William Evarts, Roger Sherman Baldwin, George Frisbie Hoar and
Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, great-grandfather of Rockwood Hoar and
Sherman Hoar, great-great grandfather of Henry Sherman Boutell,
great-great-uncle of Chauncey M. Depew), a Delegate, a
Representative, and a Senator from Connecticut; born in Newton,
Mass., April 19, 1721; moved with his parents to Stoughton (now
Canton), Mass., in 1723; attended the public schools; learned the
shoemaker’s trade; moved to New Milford, Conn., in 1743;
surveyor of New Haven County in 1745; studied law; admitted to the
bar in 1754 and practiced; member, Connecticut assembly 1755-1756,
1758-1761, 1764-1766; justice of the peace for Litchfield County
1755-1761, and of the quorum 1759-1761; moved to New Haven, Conn.,
in June 1761; justice of the peace and member of the court
1765-1766; member, State senate 1766-1785; judge of the superior
court 1766-1767, 1773-1788; member of the council of safety
1777-1779; Member of the Continental Congress 1774-1781, and 1784;
a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a member of the
committee which drafted it; member of the committee to prepare the
Articles of Confederation; the only Member of the Continental
Congress who signed the Declaration of 1774, the Declaration of
Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Federal
Constitution; mayor of New Haven from 1784 until his death;
delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia
in 1787; elected to the First Congress (March 4, 1789-March 3,
1791); elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of William S. Johnson and served from
June 13, 1791, until his death in New Haven, Conn., July 23, 1793;
interment in Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven (formerly known as
New Haven City Burying Ground).
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Rommel, John G.
Connecticut’s Yankee Patriot: Roger Sheman. Hartford:
American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Connecticut, 1980;
Collier, Christopher. Roger Sherman’s Connecticut: Yankee
Politics and the American Revolution. Middletown, Conn.:
Wesleyan University Press, 1971; Gerbr, Scott D. “Roger
Sherman and the Bill of Rights.” Polity 28 (Summer
1996): 521-540.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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