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Maryland's "First Citizen": the Maryland senate issues a "First Citizen" award every year as a well deserved tribute to Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the wealthiest signer of the Declaration of Independence. (History-Greatness Of The Founders).
Newspapers nationwide mournfully marked the end of a generation on November 15, 1832. The last living signer of the Declaration of Independence, Maryland's Charles Carroll of Carrollton, died in his sleep the previous evening. "The only remaining link which connected this generation with the past, with that illustrious race of statesmen, philanthropists and patriots, the founders of American independence, and the benefactors of the world, now and for all time hereafter, is broken," the Baltimore American wrote. Similar sentiments poured in from all over the nation, all grateful to the last surviving symbol of the Declaration.
In many ways, Charles Carroll had ...
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