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Roger Sherman was the only person to sign all four great papers, the Bill of Rights, Articles of the Confederations, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution. Roger was still a U.S. Senator at the time of his death.
Sherman, Roger (From The 1995 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia)
Roger Sherman, b. Newton, Mass., Apr. 19, 1721, d. July 23, 1793, was an American statesman and signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was a Connecticut delegate to the First and the Second Continental Congress and mayor of New Haven (1784-93). At the CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION (1787) he played a leading role in arranging the Connecticut Compromise, establishing two houses of Congress, one with two representatives from each state, the other with representation proportional to population. Sherman was later a U.S. congressman (1789-91) and senator (1791-93).
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