SHERMAN, Roger, 1721-1793


Courtesy U.S. Senate Historical Office

Extended Bibliography

Boardman, Roger Sherman. Roger Sherman, Signer and Statesman. 1938. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.

Boutell, Lewis Henry. The Life of Roger Sherman. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1896.

Boyd, Julian P. “Roger Sherman: Portrait of a Cordwainer Statesman.” New England Quarterly 5 (1932): 221-36.

Collier, Christopher. Roger Sherman’s Connecticut: Yankee Politics and the American Revolution. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971.

Gerbr, Scott D. “Roger Sherman and the Bill of Rights." Polity 28 (Summer 1996): 521-540.

Hall, Mark David. Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Hoar, George Frisbie. The Connecticut Compromise. Roger Sherman, the Author of the Plan of Equal Representation of the States in the Senate, and Representation of the People in Proportion to Numbers in the House. Worcester, MA: Press of C. Hamilton, 1903.

Rommel, John G. Connecticut’s Yankee Patriot: Roger Sherman. Hartford: American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Connecticut, 1980.