Elbridge Gerry Birthday, Date of Birth
Elbridge Thomas Gerry ( GHERR-ee; July 17, 1744 – November 23, 1814) was an American Founding Father, merchant, politician, and diplomat who served as the fifth vice president of the United States under President James Madison from 1813 until his death in 1814. The political practice of gerrymandering is named after him.
Born into a wealthy merchant family, Gerry vocally opposed British colonial policy in the 1760s and was active in the early stages of organizing the resistance in the American Revolutionary War. Elected to the Second Continental Congress, Gerry signed both the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation. He was one of three men who attended the Constitutional Convention in 1787, but refused to sign the Constitution because originally it did not include a Bill of Rights. After its ratification, he was elected to the inaugural United States Congress, where he was actively involved in the drafting and passage of the Bill of Rights as an advocate of individual and state liberties.
Gerry was at first opposed to the idea of political parties and cultivated enduring friendships on both sides of the political divide between Federalists and Democratic-Republicans. He was a member of a diplomatic delegation to France that was treated poorly in the XYZ Affair, in which Federalists held him responsible for a breakdown in negotiations. Gerry thereafter became a Democratic-Republican, running unsuccessfully for Governor of Massachusetts several times before winning the office in 1810. During his second term, the legislature approved new state senate districts that led to the coining of the word "gerrymander"; he lost the next election, although the state senate remained Democratic-Republican.
Gerry was nominated by the Democratic-Republican party and elected as vice president in the 1812 election. Advanced in age and in poor health, Gerry served 21 months of his term before dying in office. Gerry is the only signatory of the Declaration of Independence to be buried in Washington, D.C.
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Friday, July 17, 1744
- Place of Birth
- Marblehead
- Age
- 281
- Star Sign
- ♋
The July 17, 1744 was a Friday under the star sign of ♋. It was the 198 day of the year. President of the United States was N/A.
If you were born on this day, you are 281 years old. Your last birthday was on the Thursday, July 17, 2025, 88 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, July 17, 2026, in 276 days. You have lived for 102,721 days, or about 2,465,323 hours, or about 147,919,437 minutes, or about 8,875,166,220 seconds.
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