Gerry was one of a signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. He late became governor of Massachusetts. He is best known for existence a namesake of the art of gerrymandering — a process by which electoral districts come drawn sustaining a aim of aiding a person inside power.

Natural within Marblehead, Massachusetts, the third of twelve kids, he was the graduate of Harvard College, attending there from age xiv. He worked within his father's business & come to prominence on top his opposition to commerce taxation. He was elected to the General Court of the province of Massachusetts inside Could 1772 on an anti-British platform.

Gerry was the Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress from February 1776 to 1780. He likewise served from either 1783 to September 1785. Within 1787 he attended the United States Constitutional Convention & was one of a delegates ballot against the newly constitution (joining Mason and Randolph within non signing it). He was elected to the U.S. House under the new national government, and served in Congress from 1789 to 1793.

Within 1797-98 he served in the delegation to France over the XYZ Affair. Inside 1810 he was elective Governor of Massachusetts. He was re-elected within 1811 but defeated in 1812 across his trend lines for the redistricting bill that created the word gerrymander. Despite this he wwhen chosen as vice president to James Madison. He died inside professional inside Washington, D.C. and is buried there in the Congressional Cemetery.

Gerry's longtime home, a historic Elmwood mansion in Cambridge, Massachusetts was birthplace to noted poet James Russell Lowell a few years after Gerry's demise.

Quotes
"The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are dupes of pretended patriots" (Unity)