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See also:CARROLL, See also:CHARLES (1737-1832) , 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. He was educated abroad in See also: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 See also:estate known as " Carrollton," in See also:Frederick See also:county, was settled upon him; he always signed his name as " Charles Carroll of Carrollton." Before and during the See also:War of See also: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,See also:council of safety, provincial See also:convention (1794-1776) and constitutional convention (1776). From 1777 until 1800 he was a member of the Maryland See also:senate. In See also:April-See also:June 1776 he, with See also:Samuel See also:Chase and See also:Benjamin See also:Franklin, was a member of the See also:commission fruitlessly sent by the See also:continental See also:congress to See also:Canada for the purpose of persuading the Canadians to join the thirteen revolting colonies. 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 See also:Declaration of Independence, though he had not been elected until the See also:day on which that document was adopted. He out-lived all of the other signers. He was a member of the See also:United States Senate from 1789 to 1792. From 18o1 until his See also:death, at See also: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). In politics, after the formation of parties, he was a staunch Federalist. Of unusual ability, high See also:character and See also:great See also:wealth, he exercised a powerful See also:influence, particularly among his co-religionists of the See also:Roman See also:Catholic faith, and he used it to secure the independence of the colonies and to establish a See also:stable central See also:government.
See the See also:Life by Kate See also:- MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
- MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
- MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
- MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
- MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
- MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
- MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
- MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
- MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
- MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
Mason See also:Rowland (1898).
End of Article: CARROLL, CHARLES (1737-1832)
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