The Founding Fathers
Not all the delegates were in Philadelphia
at the same time. They would come and go
according to the business that needed to be
conducted in their home states. The following is
an entire list of the men who took part in the
Constitutional Convention sometime during the
four months it took to write:
New Hampshire
Nicholas Gilman
John Langdon
Massachusetts
Elbridge Gerry
Nathaniel Gorham
Rufus King
Caleb Strong
Connecticut
Oliver Ellsworth
William Samuel Johnson
Roger Sherman
New York
Alexander Hamilton
John Lansing
Robert Yates
New Jersey
David Brearley
Jonathan Dayton
William Churchill Houston
William Livingston
William Patterson
Pennsylvania
George Clymer
Thomas Fitzsimons
Benjamin Franklin
Jared Ingersoll
Thomas Mifflin
Gouverneur Morris
Robert Morris
James Wilson
Delaware
Richard Bassett
Gunning Bedford, Jr.
Jacob Broom
John Dickinson
George Read
Maryland
Daniel Carroll
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
Luther Martin
James McHenry
John Francis Mercer
John Blair
Virginia
James Madison
George Mason
James McClurg
Edmund Randolph
George Washington
George Wythe
North Carolina
William Blount
William Richardson Davie
Alexander Martin
Richard Dobbs Spaight, Sr.
Hugh Williamson
South Carolina
Pierce Butler
Charles Pinckney
Charles C. Pinckney
John Rutledge
Georgia
Abraham Baldwin
William Few
William Houston
William Leigh Pierce