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Ellsworth participated in the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia as a delegate from Connecticut along with Roger Sherman and William Samuel Johnson. More than half of the 55 delegates were lawyers, eight of whom, including both Ellsworth and Sherman, had previous experience as judges conversant with legal discourse.
Roger Sherman (April 19, 1721 – July 23, 1793) was an early American statesman, lawyer, and a Founding Father of the United States. He is the only person to sign all four great state papers of the United States: the Continental Association , the Declaration of Independence , the Articles of Confederation , and the Constitution .
Oliver Ellsworth: Thirteen essays, some of the most widely circulated commentary on the proposed Constitution, appeared under this name, with the first publication coming in the Hartford papers. The essays were certainly written by one of the Connecticut delegates to the Convention, and Ellsworth is the only likely possibility. [12] Marcus ...
Senators Oliver Ellsworth, William S. Johnson, and Roger Sherman were Founding Fathers. [18] Ellsworth helped write the Judiciary Act of 1789, and later served as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. [19]
A portrait of Roger Sherman, who authored the agreement. The Connecticut Compromise, also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman Compromise, was an agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation each state would have under the United States Constitution.
Oliver Ellsworth: 1784: 1785 Jabez Hamlin: 1784: 1785 Benjamin Huntington: 1784: 1790 Samuel Huntington: 1784: 1787 Richard Law: 1784: 1789 Stephen Mix Mitchell: 1783: 1793 William Pitkin IV: 1784: 1785 Roger Sherman: 1784: 1785 Joseph Spencer: 1784: 1789 William Williams: 1784: 1803 Oliver Wolcott: 1784: 1797 William Hillhouse: 1785: 1807 ...
Roger Sherman [3] 1774: 1775–1781: 1781; 1783–1784 Joseph Spencer: 1779: Jonathan Sturges: 1786 James Wadsworth: 1784 Jeremiah Wadsworth: 1788 William Williams: 1776–1777: Oliver Wolcott: 1776–1778; 1781: 1781–1783 Source (unless otherwise noted): [4]
On several occasions, the Connecticut delegation, including Roger Sherman, Oliver Ellsworth, and William Samuel Johnson, proposed a compromise that the House would have proportional representation and the Senate equal representation. [97] A version of this compromise had originally been crafted and proposed by Sherman on June 11.