Posted on 08/02/2020 3:07:32 PM PDT by Perseverando
He was the only person to sign all four of these America's founding documents:
Articles of Association, 1774;
Declaration of Independence, 1776;
Articles of Confederation, 1777;
U.S. Constitution, 1787.
Who was he?
Roger Sherman.
At age 19, Roger Sherman's father died and he supported his family as a shoe cobbler, helping his two younger brothers to attend college and become clergymen.
Roger Sherman was a surveyor and merchant, but when a neighbor needed legal advice, he studied to help, only to be inspired to become a lawyer.
Sherman was elected a state senator, a judge and a delegate to the Continental Congress.
He was on the Committee to draft the Declaration of Independence, along with Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and Livingston.
Roger Sherman is pictured second from the left in John Trumbull's famous painting which hangs in the Capitol Rotunda.
He helped draft the Articles of Confederation and helped draft the instructions given to an embassy headed to Canada, which stated:
"You are further to declare that we hold sacred the rights of conscience, and may promise to the whole people, solemnly in our name, the free and undisturbed exercise of their religion.
And ... that all civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination."
On October 17, 1777, when news that British General Burgoyne had surrendered 6,000 British troops to American General Horatio Gates after the Battle of Saratoga, Roger Sherman exclaimed:
"This is the Lord's doing, and marvelous in our eyes!"
Sherman made 138 speeches at the Constitutional Convention.
He helped to draft the New Jersey Plan and the Connecticut Compromise, which broke the deadlock between how the large States and small States would be represented in the new government.
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Thx!
Ditto that!
1776 Movie:
Adams:
So I say you should write it, Sherman, yes you
Sherman:
Good heavens, no!
Adams:
Yes you, Roger Sherman, you
but, you, but, you, but
Sherman:
Mr. Adams, but, Mr. Adams
I cannot write with any style or proper etiquette
I don’t know a participle from a predicate
I am just a simple cobbler from Connecticut
Others:
Connecticut, Connecticut, a simple cobbler he
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