Roger Sherman

Roger Sherman was born at Newtown in Massachusetts on April 19th 1721 and died at New Haven on July 23d A.D. 1793 at the age of LXXII. Mayor of the City of New Haven and a Senator of the United States, he was possessed of a strong, clear, penetrating mind and singular perseverance, and became a self-taught scholar eminent for jurisprudence and policy. He served nineteen years as assistant and twenty-three years as a Judge of the Superior Court in high reputation. He was a delegate in the first Congress, signed the act of Independence, was a member of the general Convention that approved the federal constitution, and served his country with fidelity and honor in the House of Representatives and in the Senate of the United States. He was regarded as a man of approved integrity, a cool discerning judge, a prudent and sagacious politician, a true, faithful, and firm patriot, and throughout life was distinguished for public usefulness and for the Christian profession he had embraced in youth.

New Haven, Connecticut · United States