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ROGER SHERMAN

Roger Sherman was an American politician. He was born in 1721 and died in 1793. A shoemaker by trade, he was later a surveyor, a lawyer and a Judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut. He was one of the committee of five who drafted the American Declaration of Independence, and was a signatory of the American Declaration of Independence and a delegate to the first and second Continental Congresses. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1789 to 1791 and a US Senator from 1791 to 1793.
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