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(1745-1807)

born: April 29, 1745, in Windsor, CT

Died: November 26, 1807

• Member of the Committee of the Pay Table - overseeing colony's war expenditures
• 1779 member of the Council of Safety
• 1777 Connecticut’s State Attorney for Hartford County
• 1777-1783 Representative to the Continental Congress
• 1787 Constitutional Convention delegate from Connecticut
• With Roger Sherman drafted the Great Compromise, also known as the Connecticut Compromise
• 1789-1796, Connecticut senators in the new federal government
• 1796-1799 the third Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court

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