Biography:

- Roger Sherman was an American government leader born on April 19, 1721 in Newton, Massachusetts.

- Marriages: Elizabeth Hartwell & Rebecca Prescott.

- Children: (15)

- Education: Common schools / Self- taught lawyer.

- Sherman studied law and passed the bar in 1754.

- He then began a career in government in the 1760s, working as a judge and a member of Connecticut’s general assembly.

- He was then elected to the Continental Congress in 1774.

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