Roger Sherman

Roger Sherman ( born April 19, 1721 Newton, Massachusetts, † July 23, 1793 in New Haven, Connecticut) was an American lawyer and politician, and co-author of the Declaration of Independence of the United States. He was also the 1791-1793 U.S. Senator of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

Career

Roger Sherman was born on April 19, 1721 in Newton, Massachusetts. His family moved in 1723 to Stoughton (now Canton ), where he attended the public schools. Sherman learned the shoemaker and then moved in 1743 to New Milford, Connecticut. He was in 1745 working as a surveyor in New Haven County, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1754 and practiced from then on. He also decided to go into politics. He was 1755-1756, then 1758-1761, and 1764-1766 Member of the Connecticut Assembly. He also had 1755-1761 the office of justice of the peace (English justice of the peace ) held for the Litchfield County. In addition, he was also 1759-1761 quorum judge (English justice of the quorum ). Sherman moved in June 1761 to New Haven, Connecticut. He was 1765-1766 as well as a justice of the peace, as well as court person (English member of the court), works. He then worked 1766-1785 in Connecticut's State Senate. At that time he was also 1766-1767, and 1773-1788 Judge of the Superior Court, he was also 1777-1779 Member of the Security Council (german council of safety ). Sherman was 1774-1781, and again in 1784 a member of the Continental Congress ( engl. Continental Congress). He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence (English Declaration of Independence ), and a member of the committee that designed it. In addition, he was also a member of the Committee, the Articles of Confederation aufstellte, and the only member of the Continental Congress that the Proclamation of 1774, the American Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution (English Federal Constitution ) has signed. In 1784 he was mayor of New Haven, an office which he held until his death. He was also in 1787 a delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Sherman was elected to the first Congress of the United States. There he worked on 4 March 1789 to 3 March 1791. He had to resign his office there, to fill the vacancy in the U.S. Senate, which was created by the resignation of U.S. Senator William S. Johnson. There he worked on 13 June 1791 until his death on June 23, 1793 in New Haven. He was on the Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven ( formerly known as New Haven City Burying Ground ) buried.

Family

Sherman was the father 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-grandfather of Henry Sherman Boutell, and great-great uncle of Chauncey M. Depew.

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