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In 1743, 2 years after his father’s death, Sherman joined an elder brother who had settled in New Milford, Connecticut. Purchasing a store, becoming a county surveyor, and winning a variety of town offices, Sherman prospered and assumed leadership in the community. In 1749, he married Elizabeth Hartwell, by whom he had seven children.
Roger Sherman nació el 19 de abril de 1721 en Newton, Massachusetts, el segundo de siete hijos de William y Mehatabel Sherman. Su familia se mudó a Dorchester (ahora llamado Stoughton) cuando él tenía dos años, y pasó la mayor parte de su juventud cultivando y aprendiendo el oficio de zapatero.
Roger Sherman (April 19, 1721 – July 23, 1793) was an American politician. He was from Connecticut. He is the only person to have signed the Articles of Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution: the four great documents of the starting of the United States. He ...
Vida temprana. Roger Sherman nació el 19 de abril de 1721 en Newton, Massachusetts, el segundo de siete hijos de William y Mehatabel Sherman. Su familia se mudó a Dorchester (ahora llamada Stoughton) cuando tenía dos años, y pasó la mayor parte de su juventud cultivando y aprendiendo el oficio de la fabricación de calzado.
Abstract. Sherman was elected to the House of Representatives for the first federal Congress, and in 1791 he was appointed to the U.S. Senate. He made important contributions in debates over representation, executive power, revenue, the assumption of state debt, the proper scope of the national government, and, especially, the Bill of Rights.
Drafting the Declaration of Independence in 1776 became the defining event in Thomas Jefferson's life. Drawing on documents, such as the Virginia Declaration of Rights, state and local calls for independence, and his own draft of a Virginia constitution, Jefferson wrote a stunning statement of the colonists' right to rebel against the British government and establish their own based on the ...
Roger Sherman (1721 – 1793), one of the Founding Fathers, was an important figure during our Revolution. He helped draft the Articles of Confederation and signed the Declaration of Independence. During the Constitutional Convention, he proposed the Great Compromise, which called for a bicameral legislature, with one part having representation based on its population.
