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Elbridge Gerry, a 1762 graduate of Harvard, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a representative from Massachusetts to the First Continental Congress, and later Vice President of the United States. On July 4, 1776, he signed the Declaration of Independence. In 1786, he retired to service as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, where he presided as chairman of the committee that produced the Great Compromise. He ultimately refused to sign the Constitution because it lacked a bill of rights, but he did agree to support it, and he was elected to the First Congress under the new national government, serving in the House from 1789 to 1793.
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