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Senate Years of Service: 1791-1793 Party: Pro-Administration
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SHERMAN, 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 shoemakers
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 in
Philadelphia in 1787 and one of the signers of the Constitution; 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).
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography; Rommel, John
G.
Connecticuts Yankee Patriot: Roger Sheman. Hartford: American
Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Connecticut, 1980; Collier, Christopher.
Roger Shermans 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.
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