Roger Sherman

Roger Sherman (April 19 (O.S.) = April 30 (N.S.), 1721 - July 23, 1793), was a signer of the United States' Declaration of Independence and a member of the committee that drafted it, a member of the committee that drafted the Articles of Confederation, and signed the United States' Constitution as a representative of Connecticut. He was the only Member of the Continental Congress who signed the Declaration of 1774, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Federal Constitution.

See Also

• Dictionary of American Biography
• Boardman, Roger Sherman; Roger Sherman, Signer and Statesman. 1938. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.
• Boutell, Lewis Henry; The Life of Roger Sherman. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1896.
• Boyd, Julian P.; ?Roger Sherman: Portrait of a Cordwainer Statesman.? New England Quarterly 5 (1932): 221-36.
• Collier, Christopher; Roger Sherman?s Connecticut: Yankee Politics and the American Revolution . Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971.
• Gerbr, Scott D.; "Roger Sherman and the Bill of Rights." Polity 28 (Summer 1996): 521-540.
• Hoar, George Frisbie; The Connecticut Compromise. Roger Sherman, the Author of the Plan of Equal Representation of the States in the Senate, and Representation of the People in Proportion to Numbers in the House . Worcester, MA: Press of C. Hamilton, 1903.
• Rommel, John G. Connecticut?s Yankee Patriot: Roger Sherman . Hartford: American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Connecticut, 1980.