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DATE OF BIRTH
Guilford, CT -
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ABRAHAM BALDWIN
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Founding Fathers
Baldwin and along with other founding fathers of the united states signed the declaration of independence -
Army
served as a chaplain in the continental army 2 years later , he declined an offer from his alma mater of a professorship of divinity. -
Education and Occupation
Baldwin was a graduate of Yale univeristy and a teacher there til 1781 -
Personal Things
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.... -
CONGRESS
elected into confederation congress -
Constitutuional Convention
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. -
Congress
After the constitutional convention, Baldwin returned to the Continental Congress -
SENATE
. 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. -
Needs
He wanted to advance the eduacation in Georgia. -
politics
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. -
His death
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.
