The Founders: Roger Sherman

“When you are in the minority, talk; when you are in the majority, vote.”

Roger Sherman

Roger Sherman was the only one of the founders to sign all of the founding documents including, and most important for our purposes, The Declaration of Independence. He was born in 1721 in Massachusetts he became a lawyer in Connecticut and was an early activist for independence. Sherman was appointed by the Second Continental Congress to the committee of five, chaired by Thomas Jefferson, to draft the Declaration of Independence.

Sherman was the first Congressperson from Connecticut after the ratification of the Constitution in 1789. He was the fifth cousin twice removed of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.