Signers of the U.S. Constitution
Delegates from 12 states (Rhode Island didn't send a delegation) met in Philadelphia in 1787 to draft a new constitution. The resulting document was signed by 39 of the 55 delegates on September 17, 1787. William Jackson also signed the document as secretary of the convention in attestation of the document's validity.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson did not attend because they were overseas on diplomatic missions. Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry did not attend because they did not see a need for the change.
Jonathan Dayton at the age of 26 was the youngest person to sign, while Benjamin Franklin, at age 81, was the oldest to sign the Constitution as he had been the oldest to (1026:sign the Declaration of Independence] a decade earlier.
Virginia
- John Blair
- James Madison*
- George Washington
New Hampshire
- Nicholas Gilman
- John Langdon
Massachusetts
- Nathaniel Gorham
- Rufus King
Connecticut
- William Samuel Johnson
- Roger Sherman
New York
New Jersey
- David Brearly
- Jonathan Dayton
- William Livingston
- William Paterson
Pennsylvania
- George Clymer
- Thomas Fitzsimmons
- Benjamin Franklin
- Jared Ingersoll
- Thomas Mifflin
- Gouvernor Morris
- Robert Morris
- James Wilson
Delaware
- Richard Bassett
- Gunning Bedford, Jr.
- Jacob Broom
- John Dickinson
- George Read
Maryland
- Daniel Carroll
- Daniel Jenifer
- James McHenry
North Carolina
- William Blount
- Richard Dobbs Spaight
- Hugh Williamson
South Carolina
- Pierce Butler
- Charles Pinckney
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
- John Rutledge
Georgia
- Abraham Baldwin
- William Few, Jr.
Rhode Island, one of the original 13 colonies, did not immediately sign the
Constitution of the United States (Text), but did so three years later and became a state in 1790. See
United States Constitution.
*The streets of
Madison, Wisconsin, are named after the signers.
