Framers of the Constitution (Our Founding Fathers)
The original states, except Rhode Island, collectively appointed 70 individuals to the Constitutional Convention. A number of these individuals did not accept or could not attend, including Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock. In all, 55 delegates attended the Constitutional Convention sessions, but only 39 actually signed the Constitution. The delegates ranged in age from Jonathan Dayton, aged 26, to Benjamin Franklin, aged 81, who was so infirm that he had to be carried to sessions in a sedan chair.
Biographies of each Founding Father available via the download buttons.
Connecticut
- Oliver Ellsworth (Elsworth) – Delegate who did not sign the Constitution
- William. Samuel Johnson
- Roger Sherman
Delaware
- Richard Bassett
- Gunning Bedford, Jr.
- Jacob Broom
- John Dickinson
- George Read
Georgia
- Abraham Baldwin
- William Few
- William Houston – Delegate who did not sign the Constitution
- William L. Pierce – Delegate who did not sign the Constitution
Maryland
- Daniel Carroll
- Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
- Luther Martin – Delegate who did not sign the Constitution
- James McHenry
- John F. Mercer – Delegate who did not sign the Constitution
Massachusetts
- Elbridge Gerry – Delegate who did not sign the Constitution
- Nathaniel Gorham
- Rufus King
- Caleb Strong – Delegate who did not sign the Constitution
New Hampshire
- Nicholas Gilman
- John Langdon
New Jersey
- David Brearly (Brearley)
- Jonathan Dayton
- William C. Houston – Delegate who did not sign the Constitution
- William Livingston
- William Paterson (Patterson)
New York
- Alexander Hamilton
- John Lansing, Jr. – Delegate who did not sign the Constitution
- Robert Yates – Delegate who did not sign the Constitution
North Carolina
- William. Blount
- William R. Davie – Delegate who did not sign the Constitution
- Alexander Martin – Delegate who did not sign the Constitution
- Richard. Dobbs Spaight
- Hugh Williamson
Pennsylvania
- George Clymer
- Thomas Fitzsimons (FitzSimons; Fitzsimmons)
- Benjamin Franklin
- Jared Ingersoll
- Thomas Mifflin
- Gouverneur Morris
- Robert Morris
- James Wilson
Rhode Island
Rhode Island did not send any delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
South Carolina
- Pierce Butler
- Charles Pinckney
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
- John Rutledge
Virginia
- John Blair
- James Madison Jr.
- George Mason – Delegate who did not sign the Constitution
- James McClurg – Delegate who did not sign the Constitution
- Edmund J. Randolph – Delegate who did not sign the Constitution
- George Washington
- George Wythe – Delegate who did not sign the Constitution
- Robert Morris
- James Wilson
All information above as per the United States National Archives (Pre 2021)
