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Roger Sherman (April 19th (old style), April 30th (new style) 1721 - July 23rd 1793) was a lawyer and American politician which signed the Déclaration of independence of the United States of America, the Articles of the Confederation and the Constitution of the United States of America.

Its beginnings

Roger Sherman was born with Newton in the state from the Massachusetts, in the North-East of the United States. He began his life as shoe-maker, but was interested much in knowledge: he had access to the library of his father and receipt the protection of the reverend Samuel Danbar. In 1743, after the death of his father, he moves with his mother with New Milford (Connecticut) where he opens a shop in partnership with his brother. He quickly became one of notable of the city by accepting the load of land-surveyor. He wrote several almanacs.

Legal and political career

He became lawyer with Litchfield (Connecticut) in 1754 and selected to be the delegate of New Milford at the general meeting of the colony. He was also treasurer of the university of Yale. in 1783, it revises the laws of Connecticut with Richard Law and the following year, it is elected mayor of New Haven, station which it occupied until his death in 1793.

Sherman with the continental congress

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