Roger Sherman

Roger Sherman (April 19, 1721 – July 23, 1793) was an American politician was from Connecticut. He is the only person to have signed the Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution,which are the four great documents of the early United States.

Sherman started out as a poor boy in Connecticut. His first career was shoemaking.

He served in the Continental Congress for several years. Along with Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Robert Livingstone, he was one of the people who helped write the Declaration of Independence. Sherman created the Great Compromise,or the Connecticut Compromise, at the Constitutional Convention. It proposed a bicameral (two-housed) legislature, with one house having different numbers of members per state according to its population and the other house with the same number of members per state. The final Constitution included his concept after a long debate.

After the Constitution was passed, he was a Representative and Senator from Connecticut.


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