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( Roger Sherman)
Roger Sherman (April 19 (O.S.), April 30 (N.S.), 1721 – July 23, 1793) was an early American lawyer and politician. He served as the first mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, and served on the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, and was also a representative and senator in the new republic. He was the only person to sign all four great state papers of the U.S. the Articles of Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.[1] Thomas Jefferson once said of him "That is Mr. Sherman of Connecticut, a man who has never said a foolish thing in his life." Sherman is also the patriarch of one of the most powerful and prolific U.S. political families, the Baldwin, Hoar & Sherman family. Sherman was born in Newton, Massachusetts. When he was three years old, his family moved to Canton, Massachusetts, a town located seventeen miles south of Boston. Sherman's education did not extend beyond grammar school and his early career was spent as a shoe designer but he was blessed with the ability of learning, and access to a good library owned by his father as well as a Harvard educated parish minister, Rev. Samuel Dunbar, who took him under his wing.
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