Roger Sherman Baldwin
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Roger Sherman Baldwin | |
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Chauncey Fitch Cleveland | |
Succeeded by | Isaac Toucey |
United States Senator from Connecticut | |
In office November 11, 1847 – March 3, 1851 | |
Preceded by | Jabez W. Huntington |
Succeeded by | Isaac Toucey |
Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives | |
In office 1837-1838 | |
Personal details | |
Born | New Haven, Connecticut | January 4, 1793
Died | February 19, 1863 New Haven, Connecticut | (aged 70)
Political party | Whig Republican |
Spouse |
Emily Pitkin Perkins (m. 1820) |
Children | 9, incl. Simeon Eben Baldwin |
Alma mater | Yale College Litchfield Law School |
Roger Sherman Baldwin (January 4, 1793 – February 19, 1863) was an American politician who served as the
Early life
Baldwin was born in
Political career
After having been a member of the city government in New Haven, in 1826 and 1828, Baldwin was elected in 1837 and again in 1838 as a member of the Connecticut State Senate. In 1840 and 1841 he represented the town of New Haven in the General Assembly. He was elected Governor of Connecticut in 1844 by the state legislature, and was re-elected in 1845. In 1844, Governor Roger Sherman Baldwin proposed legislation to end slavery, but the General Assembly did not pass it until it was reintroduced in 1848 as "An Act to Prevent Slavery".[3][4] On the death of Senator Jabez W. Huntington in 1847, Baldwin was appointed by Governor Clark Bissell to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate, and in December of that year he took his seat as a member of that body. He was elected by the Legislature in the following May to the same position, which he held until 1851.
While in office he demanded an "independent tribunal" to protect the rights of free Black Americans and investigate the claims of those enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act. Some argued that Black Americans were not citizens and had no rights worth protecting. He reminded them that many states had allowed Black men of property to vote at the time of the nation's founding, a right that was only rescinded in the 1830s.[5]
After that period he held no public office, except that he was one of the presidential electors in the canvass of 1860, and by appointment of Governor
Baldwin died in New Haven, February 19, 1863; at the age of 70 and was interred at Grove Street Cemetery. A biographical discourse was pronounced at his funeral by Rev. Dr. Dutton, which was printed in the New Englander for April 1863, and was also published as a pamphlet.
Family
He was grandson of
In popular culture
A simplified version of the events regarding
References
- ^ Roger Sherman Architect of the Capitol. Retrieved February 14, 2007.
- ^ The Baldwin genealogy from 1500 to 1881 by C.C. Baldwin
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- ^ Dutton, Henry; Waldo, Loren Pinckney; Booth, David Belden (1866). "An Act to Prevent Slavery". Google Books.
- ^ Polgar, P.J., 2023. Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction.
External links
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- Roger Sherman Baldwin Litchfield Ledger - Student
- Connecticut Governor Roger Sherman Baldwin from the Connecticut State Library
- US Senator Roger Sherman Baldwin US Congress
- Baldwin Family Papers (MS 55). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
- Roger Sherman Baldwin (1793–1863) Guide to Research Papers
- Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England By Thomas Townsend Sherman
- Baldwin-Greene-Gager family of Connecticut Archived 2020-01-14 at the Political Graveyard
- Sherman-Hoar family Archived 2019-08-21 at the Political Graveyard
- History of the Federal Judiciary
- Roger Sherman Baldwin Museum of Connecticut History
- From Thomas Jefferson to Roger Sherman Baldwin, 9 March 1822
- To Thomas Jefferson from Roger Sherman Baldwin, 24 February 1822
- Roger Sherman Baldwin to Thomas Jefferson, February 24, 1822 Library of Congress