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4 days ago · Carroll was born on Sept. 19, 1737, as the only son of Charles Carroll of Annapolis and Elizabeth Brooke. The young Carroll spent more than a decade and a half of his formative years in Europe ...
2 days ago · Charles Carroll of Carrollton was a man of superlatives. Out of all the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Carroll was the wealthiest. He was also the longest-lived of all the signers, surviving to the ripe old age of 95.
18 hours ago · A new paperback edition of Brad Birzer’s American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll has recently been published by Regnery Gateway.It’s the best standard length biography of Charles Carroll of Carrollton I know of, and its spritely style and incisive commentary make it useful for anyone interested in perhaps the best known Roman Catholic Founding Father.
5 days ago · One man, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, is of interest to Catholics, for this wealthy Maryland planter was the only Roman Catholic to have signed the Declaration of Independence. It was an enormous achievement in a period where anti-Catholic sentiment was common among the American colonists.
4 days ago · Charles Carroll of Carrollton: a ‘patriotic’ Catholic Founding Father. Carroll was the only signer of the Declaration who was Catholic — in a time and place when Catholics faced...
5 days ago · Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence, symbolizes their legacy of advocating for liberty and justice. Beyond politics, his foresight in economic development reshaped American infrastructure by founding the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O).
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