Roger Sherman, one of the Founders of the United States of America, was the only person who signed all four of the nation’s major foundational documents: the Articles of Association, which created the Continental Association; the Declaration of Independence; the Articles of Confederation, the country’s first governing constitution; and, finally, the Constitution. He was born on April 19, 1721, in Newtown (later Newton), Massachusetts. After his father’s death, the family moved to New Milford, Connecticut, where in time Sherman, despite his lack of formal education, became the town’s leading citizen and a major figure in state and national politics. He first worked as a shoemaker and then entered public life as a county surveyor. Later, he studied law and eventually became a justice of the peace, then a county judge, and then an associate justice of the state’s Superior Court. He also served as a representative in the state’s General Assembly and was the first mayor of New Haven, Connecticut. Meanwhile, Sherman and his brother became prominent merchants, and Sherman’s business acumen led him to write “A Caveat against Injustice; or, An Inquiry into the Evils of a Fluctuating Medium of Exchange.” This document helped put currency in the colonies on a somewhat sounder footing than it had been.