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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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