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On 14 January 1788 nondelegate Elbridge Gerry was invited to take a seat and respond to questions about the Constitutional Convention, of which he had been a member. Gerry accepted the invitation and attended for the first time on 15 January. On Friday, 18 January, Gerry was asked a question (on representation and taxation) for…
Elbridge Gerry. James Barton Longacre, copied after John Vanderlyn (c.1820) National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, NPG.77.297.
Jul 20, 2017 · Elbridge Gerry, the governor who signed the bill creating the misshapen Massachusetts district, was a Founding Father: signer of the Declaration of Independence, reluctant framer of the ...
Elbridge Thomas Gerry (July 17, 1744 – November 23, 1814) was an American politician from Massachusetts. As a Democratic-Republican he was elected the fifth vice president of the United States, serving under James Madison, from March 4, 1813, until his death a year and a half later. Gerry was a member of the Continental Congress and was a ...
Elbridge Gerry was a Massachusetts merchant who became a leader of the American independence movement. As a member of the Continental Congress he signed the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation.
Elbridge Gerry was born on July 17, 1744 at Marblehead, Massachusetts, the third son of Thomas Gerry and Elizabeth Greenleaf. Elbridge’s father, Captain Thomas Gerry, was born in 1702 and came to America in 1730 from Newton Abbott, Devonshire, England. He was master of his own vessel and became a wealthy and politically active merchant shipper.
A Biography of Elbridge Gerry 1744-1814. Gerry was born in 1744 at Marblehead, MA, the third of 12 children. His mother was the daughter of a Boston merchant; his father, a wealthy and politically active merchant-shipper who had once been a sea captain.
