Charles Carroll (barrister)
Charles Carroll (March 22, 1723 – March 23, 1783) was an American lawyer and statesman from Annapolis, Maryland. He was the builder of the Baltimore Colonial home Mount Clare (1760), and a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1776 and 1777.
Read more about Charles Carroll (barrister): Early Life, Revolutionary Years, Mount Clare and Other
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“Taft, laughing, “What troubles [brother] Charles is, he is afraid Roosevelt will get the credit of making me President and not himself.” To Charles: “I will agree not to minimize the part you played in making me President if you will agree not to minimize the part Roosevelt played.””
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
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—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)