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Guilford, CT
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Baldwin and along with other founding fathers of the united states signed the declaration of independence
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served as a chaplain in the continental army 2 years later , he declined an offer from his alma mater of a professorship of divinity.
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Baldwin was a graduate of Yale univeristy and a teacher there til 1781
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he sat in the assembly and the Continental Congress. His father also died and Baldwin undertook to pay off his debts and educate, out of his own pocket, his half-brothers and half-sisters. The same year he was absent for a few weeks....
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elected into confederation congress
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In 1787 he represented Georgia at the Federal Constitutional Convention.He was influential in achieving the Continental Compromise which called for a federal legislature composed of a House of Representatives elected according to population and a Senate with an equal number of representatives from each state. Baldwin needed equal votes in the senate.
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After the constitutional convention, Baldwin returned to the Continental Congress
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. He was then elected to the U.S. Congress, where he served for 18 years (House of Representatives, 1789-99; Senate, 1799-1807). During these years, he became a bitter opponent of Hamiltonian policies and, unlike most other native New Englanders, an ally of Madison and Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans. In the Senate, he presided for a while as president pro tem.
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He wanted to advance the eduacation in Georgia.
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Baldwin was an avid supporter of limited nationalist policies and was widely perceived as the leader of the moderate wing of the Democratic-Republican Party.
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he never got married but died after a short illness during his 53 birthday year in 1807. Still serving in the Senate at the time he was buried in Washington's Rock Creek Cemetery.
