(1721–93), U.S. statesman. Roger Sherman was born in Newton, Mass., on April 19, 1721. In 1743 he settled in New Milford, Conn., where he held a number of local offices and served in the state legislature intermittently from 1755 to 1766. He was elected to the Continental Congress 1774 and was a member of the committee that drew up the Declaration of Independence. He also helped draft the Articles of Confederation and served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, during which he helped reconcile large-state and small-state parties. He was the only man who signed the Declaration, the Articles of Association, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. He later served in the House of Representatives (1789–91) and in the Senate (1791–93).