What was roger Sherman doing during the war?

Answer 1

Roger Sherman was in the Civil War. If you have heard of the Sherman tank that was named after him

The Roger Sherman from Connecticut (only person to sign all four early American founding and defining documents) died in 1793 - thus was not a part of the Civil War. Although he was involved in/with the creation and adoption of "the four documents", he was also instrumental in what is known as "The Great Compromise" which allowed representation based on a state's population in the lower house (of Representatives), and allowed for two senators from each state in the upper house (Senate) -- a compromise between larger states who were wanting representation based on their larger populations and smaller states concerned they would not be adequately represented in a system based solely on population. Perhaps his most important contribution was/is certainly much more obscure - "A Caveat against Injustice" - originally published in 1752 and parts of this being written into the U.S. Constitution (Art. 1 Sect. 10). The concern by Mr. Sherman was the issues relating to a fluctuating medium of exchange between neighboring colonial (and later state) governments where several forms of "money" were being widely used from one to another, making it difficult to place value on one versus the other as different areas saw the "value" of their "money" (whether "Bills of Credit", gold, silver or whatever was being used as a medium of exchange) fluctuate. The paramount concern looking into the future that Mr Sherman was warning us about was the danger of ANYONE having the ability to "create" money out of thin air. He understood how this would significantly damage the nation and create a society much different than the one they foresaw while drafting the defining original documents that set us apart from Great Britian from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. This bit of history is much less known ----

Answer 2

One of the most remarkable men of the Revolution, was Roger Sherman. He was born in Newton, Massachusetts, on the nineteenth of April, 1721. In 1723, the family moved to Stonington, in that State, where they lived until the death of Roger's father, in 1741. Roger was then only nineteen years of age, and the whole care and support of a large family devolved on him. He had been apprenticed to a shoemaker, but he now took charge of the small farm his father left. In 1744, they sold the farm, and moved to New Milford, in Connecticut, where an elder brother, who was married, resided. Roger performed the journey on foot, carrying his shoemaker's tools with him, and for some time he worked industriously at his trade there.

Mr. Sherman's early education was exceedingly limited, but with a naturally strong and active mind, he acquired a large stock of knowledge from books, during his apprenticeship1. Not long after he settled in New Milford, he formed a partnership with his brother in a mercantile business, but all the while was very studious. He turned his attention to the study of law, during his leisure hours; and so proficient did he become in legal knowledge, that he was admitted to the bar in December, 1754 2.

In 1755, Mr. Sherman was elected a representative of New Milford, in the General Assembly of Connecticut, and the same year he was appointed a Justice of the Peace. After practicing law about five years, he was appointed Judge of the County Court for Litchfield county (c. May 1759). He moved to New Haven in 1761, when the same appointments were conferred a May, upon him, and in addition, he was chosen treasurer of Yale College, from which institution, in 1765, be received the honorary degree of A. M. In 1766, he was elected to the senate, or upper house of the legislature of Connecticut; and it was at this time that the passage of the Stamp Act was bringing the politicians of America to a decided stand in relation to the repeated aggressions of Great Britain. Roger Sherman fearlessly took part with the patriots, and was a leader among them in Connecticut, until the war broke out. He was elected a delegate from Connecticut to the Continental Congress, in 1774, and was present at the opening on the fifth of September. He was one of the most active members of that body, and was appointed one of the Committee to prepare a draft of a Declaration of Independence; a document to which he affixed his signature with hearty good will, after it was adopted by Congress.

Although his duties in Congress, during the war, were almost incessant, yet he was at the same time a member of the Committee of Safety of Connecticut. In 1783, he was appointed, with Judge Law, of New London, to revise the statutes of the State, in which service he showed great ability. He was a delegate from Connecticut in the Convention in 1787 that framed the present Constitution of the United States; and he was a member of the State Convention of Connecticut which assembled to act upon the ratification of that instrument. For two years after the organization of the government under the Constitution, he was a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was then promoted to the Senate, which office he filled at the time of his death, which took place on the twenty-third of July, 1793, in the seventy-third year of his age. He had previously been elected mayor of New Haven, when it was invested with city powers and privileges, and that office he held until the time of his death 3.