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See also: American See also: political See also: leader, of Irish ancestry, was See also: born at See also: Annapolis, See also: Maryland, on the 19th of See also: September 1737
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He was educated abroad in French Jesuit colleges, studied See also: law at See also: Bourges, See also: Paris and See also: London,, and in See also: February 1765 returned to Maryland, where an estate known as " Carrollton," in See also: Frederick county, was settled upon him; he always signed his name as " See also: Charles Carroll of Carrollton." Before and during the War of Independence, he was a whig or patriot leader, and as such was naturally a member of the various
See also: local and provincial extra-legal bodies—committees of See also: correspondence,committees of observation,council of safety, provincial See also: convention (1794-1776) and constitutional convention (1776)
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From 1777 until 1800 he was a member of the Maryland senate
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In See also: April-See also: June 1776 he, with See also: Samuel See also: Chase and Benjamin See also: Franklin, was a member of the commission fruitlessly sent by the See also: continental congress to See also: Canada for the purpose of persuading the Canadians to join the thirteen revolting colonies
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From 1776 to 1779 he sat in the continental congress, rendering important services as a member of. the See also: board of war, and See also: signing on the and of See also: August 1776 the Declaration of Independence, though he had not been elected until the See also: day on which that document was adopted
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He out-lived all of the other signers
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He was a member of the See also: United States Senate from 1789 to 1792
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From 18o1 until his See also: death, at Baltimore, on the 14th of See also: November 1832, he lived in retirement, his last public See also: act being the formal ceremony of starting the construction of the Baltimore and See also: Ohio railway (See also: July 4, 1828)
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In politics, after the formation of parties, he was a staunch Federalist
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Of unusual ability, high character and See also: great See also: wealth, he exercised a powerful influence, particularly among his co-religionists of the See also: Roman Catholic faith, and he used it to secure the independence of the colonies and to establish a See also: stable central See also: government
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See the See also: Life by Kate See also: Mason See also: Rowland (1898)
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