卡罗尔顿的查尔斯·卡罗尔：一位‘爱国’的天主教开国元勋

[ad_1] Source Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. / Credit: New York Public Library/Public domain Charles Carroll of Carrollton was a man of superlatives. Out of all the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Carroll was the wealthiest. He was also the longest-lived of all the signers, surviving to the ripe old age of 95. But perhaps most notably, Charles Carroll was the only signer of the Declaration who was Catholic — in a time…