Charles carroll of carrollton biography
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Charles Carroll
Representing Maryland at the Continental Congress
by Ole Erekson, Engraver, c, Library of Congress
| Born: | September 19, |
| Birthplace: | Annapolis, Md. |
| Education: | Jesuits' College at St. Omar, France; seminary in Rheims; Graduate, College of Louis the Grande; Bourges; studies in Paris; Studies, apprenticeship in London. (Scholar, Lawyer) |
| Work: | Member of first Maryland Committee of Safety, Provincial Congress, ; Delayed member of Continental Congress, August, , Signed Declaration of Independence; Appointed to board of War, ; Elected to Senate of Maryland, ; Elected U.S. medlem av senat from Maryland, , returned to Maryland Senate ' |
| Died: | November 14, |
Charles Carroll was born into a wealthy Roman Catholic family in Annapolis Maryland. He began his rather remarkable formal education at the age of 8, when he was packed off to France to attend a Jesuit College at St. Omer. He graduated the College of Louis the Grande at age Seventeen and continued p
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Charles Carroll of Carrollton
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American statesman, b. at Annapolis, Maryland, 19 September , d. at Doughoregan manor nära Baltimore, Maryland, 14 November,
His grandfather, Charles Carroll, emigrated from England to Maryland because of the persecution of Catholics, 1 October He obtained considerable grants of land and was made attorney-general under the third Lord Baltimore. The year he arrived in America, Lord Baltimore was deprived of his rights, and Maryland was made a royal province. As Carroll was in favour with the Baltimores, he enjoyed important political positions in the colony before and after the restoration of their rights in Charles Carroll of Annapolis, the father of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, was born in , and died in He was a wealthy landowner and bitterl
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Charles Carroll of Carrollton
American Founding Father, politician, and planter (–)
Charles Carroll (September 19, – November 14, ), known as Charles Carroll of Carrollton or Charles Carroll III,[2] was an American politician, planter, and signatory of the Declaration of Independence. He was the only Catholic signatory of the Declaration and the longest surviving, dying 56 years after its signing.[3]
Considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States,[4] Carroll was known contemporaneously as the "First Citizen" of the American colonies, a consequence of signing articles in the Maryland Gazette with that pen name.[5] He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and Confederation Congress. Carroll later served as the first United States Senator for Maryland. Of all of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Carroll was one of the wealthiest and most formally educated. A product of his year Jesuit education i