How Did Roger Sherman Contribute To Government

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Roger Sherman was an American government leader and a founding father. He helped draft and sign both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Sherman worked as a lawyer, a cobbler, and a surveyor. He then began a career in government in the 1760s, working as a judge and a member of Connecticut’s general assembly. In 1774, he was then elected to the Continental Congress. After serving time as a congressman, Sherman became the mayor of New Have. He was later elected as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, where he worked until his death on July 23, 1793 in New Haven, Connecticut. (www.biography.com)
Roger Sherman was born at Newton, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1721. When Sherman was 2 years old, his family relocated from his Newton, Massachusetts to Dorchester. As a boy, he was driven by a desire to learn and read because of his minimal education at a common school. He had access to his father’s library, and when Roger was thirteen years old the town built a grammar school, which he attended. He spent most of his time helping his father with farming chores and learning the cobbler's trade from him. In 1743, 2 years after his father's death, Sherman joined an …show more content…
Congress. He advocated measures popular in New England: imposition of tariffs to protect local manufacturers, assumption of state debts by the federal government, and sale of western lands to finance the national debt. He also opposed amending the Constitution and locating the new national capital in the south. In 1791 he assumed a seat in the U.S. Senate, where he served until his death two years later.
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