What is Charles Carroll of Carrollton?
{{Infobox Senator |name=Charles Carroll |nationality=American |image name=Charlescarrollofcarrollton.jpg |jr/sr=United States Senator |state=[[Maryland]] |party=[[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]] |term_start=March 4, 1789 |term_end=November 30, 1792 |preceded=''Office Created'' |succeeded=[[Richard Potts]] |office2=[[Maryland State Senate]] |term_start2=1777 |term_end2=1801 |predecessor2= |successor2= |constituency2= |birth_date=September 19, 1737 |birth_place=[[Annapolis, Maryland]] |death_date=November 14, 1832 |death_place=[[Baltimore, Maryland]] |spouse= Mary Darnall |alma_mater=[[College of St. Omer]]<br />College of Louis the Grand |signature=Charles Carroll signature.png }} '''Charles Carroll of [[Carrollton, Maryland|Carrollton]]''' (September 19, 1737 – November 14 1832) was a [[delegate]] to the [[Continental Congress]] and later United States [[United States Senate|Senator]] for [[Maryland]]. He was the only [[Catholicism|Catholic]] signer of the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]]. He was the longest lived signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Continental Congress, dying at the age of 95. He was a rich planter. Although he opposed slavery he had slaves.<ref>{{cite book| last1 = Miller| first1 = Randall M.| last2 = Wakelyn| first2 = Jon L.| title = Catholics in the Old South: Essays on Church and Culture| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=N_1rzB1plukC&pg=PA214| year = 1999| publisher = Mercer University Press| isbn = 978-0-86554-676-9| page = 214 }}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} {{USDecOfIndSig}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Carroll, Charles, Of Carrollton}} [[Category:1737 births]] [[Category:1832 deaths]] [[Category:American Roman Catholics]] [[Category:People from Annapolis, Maryland]] [[Category:Signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence]] [[Category:United States senators from Maryland]] {{US-biography-stub}}