Who are the people who signed the US Constitution?

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The following is a list of the signers of the U.S. Constitution by the original 13 colonies who sent delegates to the Constitutional Convention.

Connecticut

  • William S. Johnson

  • Roger Sherman

Delaware

  • Richard Bassett

  • Gunning Bedford, Jr.

  • Jacob Broom

  • John Dickinson

  • George Read

Georgia

  • Abraham Baldwin

  • William Few

Maryland

  • Daniel Carroll

  • Daniel Jenifer of St. Thomas

  • James McHenry

Massachusetts

  • Nathaniel Gorham

  • Rufus King

New Hampshire

  • Nicholas Gilman

  • John Langdon

New Jersey

  • David Brearly

  • Jonathan Dayton

  • William Livingston

  • William Patterson

New York

  • Alexander Hamilton

North Carolina

  • William Blount

  • Richard D. Spaight

  • Hugh Williamson

Pennsylvania

  • George Clymer

  • Thomas Fitzsimons

  • Benjamin Franklin

  • Jared Ingersoll

  • Thomas Mifflin

  • Gouverneur Morris

  • Robert Morris

  • James Wilson

South Carolina

  • Pierce Butler

  • Charles Pinckney

  • Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

  • John Rutledge

Rhode Island

Rhode Island didn't send any delegates to the Constitutional Convention.

Virginia

  • John Blair

  • James Madison

  • George Washington

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The U.S. Constitution was signed on September 17, 1787 by 39 delegates.

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The delegates to the Constitutional (Federal) Convention are often called our "Framers." They were influential people in their home states, where they were selected to attend the convention. Most of the delegates were well educated in the ideas of political philosophy. This site has biographies on all the delegates and the states from which they were selected.

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