Charles
Carroll (of Carrollton) (1737-1832),
Library of Congress
Charles Carroll, a Delegate and a Senator from Maryland; born in
Annapolis, Md., September 19, 1737; attended the Jesuits’ College of
Bohemia at Hermans Manor, Md., and the College of St. Omer in
France; studied civil law at the College of Louis le Grand in
Rheims, and common law in London; returned to Annapolis, Md., in
1765; delegate to the revolutionary convention of Maryland in 1775;
Continental commissioner to Canada in 1776; member of the Board of
War 1776-1777; Delegate to the Continental Congress 1776-1778; again
elected to the Continental Congress in 1780, but declined to serve;
was a signer of the Declaration of Independence; member, State
senate 1777-1800; elected to the United States Senate in 1789;
reelected in 1791 and served from March 4, 1789, to November 30,
1792, when, preferring to remain a State senator, he resigned
because of a law passed by the Maryland legislature disqualifying
the members of the State senate who held seats in Congress; retired
to private life in 1801; involved in establishing the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Company in 1828; died in Baltimore, Md., November 14,
1832; at the time of his death was the last surviving signer of the
Declaration of Independence; interment in the chapel of Doughoregan
Manor, near Ellicott City, Howard County, Md. Both East & West
Carroll Parishes are named for him.
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