* 1721 – Roger Sherman, American statesman and signer of the U. S. Declaration of Independence ( d. 1793 )

Roger Sherman Loomis believed it was derived from Cavalon, a place name that he suggested was a corruption of Avalon ( under the influence of the Breton place name Cavallon ).

The first, championed by Roger Sherman Loomis, Alfred Nutt, and Jessie Weston, holds that it derived from early Celtic myth and folklore.

* 1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.

* Loomis, Roger Sherman ( 1927 ).

* Roger Sherman, a Founding Father of the United States of America.

On June 11, 1776, Congress appointed a " Committee of Five ", consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut, to draft a declaration.

* July 23 – Roger Sherman, American signer of the Declaration of Independence ( b. 1721 )

* April 19 – Roger Sherman, signer of the American Declaration of Independence ( d. 1803 )

Sherman was distantly related to American founding father Roger Sherman and grew to admire him.

This was probably originally in honor of Roger Sherman, though after the Civil War William Tecumseh Sherman was also an influence.

* Roger Sherman ( 1721 – 1793 ), American lawyer and politician

* Roger Sherman ( American football ) ( 1872 – 1957 ), American football player, coach and lawyer

* Roger Sherman Hoar ( 1887 – 1963 ), American politician and author

The Roger Sherman Debate Society participates in policy debate tournaments sanctioned by the Cross Examination Debate Association.

* Roger Sherman Debate Society

The world premiere of the movie was in September 1969, at the Roger Sherman Theater, in New Haven, Connecticut.

The Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym alludes to Guinevere's abduction in two of his poems, and the medievalist Roger Sherman Loomis suggested that this tale shows that " she had inherited the role of a Celtic Persephone ".

In January 1776 he took his place with Roger Sherman and Oliver Wolcott as the Connecticut delegation in Philadelphia.

There are also several churches in town, as well as the historic Roger Sherman Inn.

The town is named for New Haven's Founding Father, Roger Sherman.

However, the medievalist Roger Sherman Loomis suggests a derivation from the epithet Gwallt Avwyn, found in the list of heroes in Culhwch and Olwen, which he translates as " hair like reins " or " bright hair ".

He was also a direct descendant of Roger Sherman, a Connecticut signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Roger Casement, writing to a consular colleague in Lisbon on August 3, 1903 from Lake Mantumba in the Congo Free State, said: " The people round here are all cannibals.

On July 24, 1789, President Washington asked Thomson to deliver the seal to the Department of Foreign Affairs in the person of Roger Alden, who kept it until the Department of State was created.

The late Professor Roger Rusk ( 1906 – 1994 ), brother of former U. S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, was a prominent teacher of British Israelism.

Assistant Secretary of State Roger Hilsman recommended that if the generals decide to exile Diệm, he should also be sent outside Southeast Asia.

The State Cinema where Eddie met Roger in the classic Who Framed Roger Rabbit can be found in Grays.

* Roger Niello-California State Assemblyman, 5th district / Niello Motors.

Pine City is in State Legislative District 11B, represented by State Senator Tony Lourey ( DFL ) and Representative Roger Crawford ( R ).

The phrase is used on the Rhode Island State Seal with an anchor because Roger Williams was inspired by the Biblical passage " hope is the anchor of the soul " in Hebrews, Verse 6: 19.

* Roger Wheeler State Beach and Salty Brine State Beach are both located in Point Judith, which is the southern most point of Narragansett.

Roger Sherman disagreed: " The power of the United States to regulate trade being supreme can control interferences of the State regulations when such interferences happen ; so that there is no danger to be apprehended from a concurrent jurisdiction.

In 1958 the U. S. State Department sent him, along with some fellow composers including Peter Mennin and Roger Sessions, to the Soviet Union as a " cultural ambassador "; he was impressed by the support for composers that the Soviet state provided, not aware at the time of how carefully his visit was managed.

* Report of the British Consul, Roger Casement, on the Administration of the Congo Free State, reprinted in full in The eyes of another race: Roger Casement ’ s Congo report and 1903 diary edited by Seamas O Siochain and Michael O ’ Sullivan.

* The official name of the policy debate team at Western Connecticut State University is the " Roger Sherman Debate Society ".

The 1960 football team won the Virginia State Championship under the coaching of head coach John Youngblood and assistants Sal DiGeorgi, Roger Coggins and Clarence Dryer.

In a cable drafted by Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, Roger Hilsman, to Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Lodge was advised to demand " the removal of the Nhus from the scene.

The original 1636 Aboriginal title in the United States | Indian deed creating the State of Rhode Island signed by Native American Chief Canonicus to Roger Williams ( theologian ) | Roger Williams

* Connecticut Governor Roger Sherman Baldwin from the Connecticut State Library

They had four children: Russ Carnahan, a member the U. S. House of Representatives for Missouri's 3rd District ; Tom Carnahan, founder of Wind Capital Group, which builds wind farms ; Robin Carnahan, Missouri Secretary of State ( 2004-present ); and Roger " Randy " Carnahan, who piloted the plane and perished in the same crash that killed his father.

He picked up endorsements from Congressmen Dan Lungren, Duncan Hunter, and Wally Herger, as well as State Senator Dave Cox, and Assemblyman Roger Niello and Assemblyman Doug LaMalfa.