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America's Constitutors

Below is a list of America's Constitutors which includes national figures from 1774 to 1790. There are six assemblages which include the First and Second Continental Congresses, the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the United States in Congress Assembled (known as the Congress of the Confederation), the Philadelphia Convention (known as the Constitutional Convention), and the state ratifying conventions for the federal Constitution.

 

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In the future, we will add information about the Constitutors throughout all of American history including those who participated in ratifying each of the amendments to the Constitution. There are many delegates who played a role in politics besides the few Founders that everyone knows of.

"First CC" means first continental congress; "Second CC" means second continental congress; "DI" means Declaration of Independence; "USCA" means United States in Congress Assembled; "PC" means Philadelphia Convention and if there is an * next to the word "participated" then that means they did not sign the constitution; & "SRC" means state ratifying convention and there are five states that I do not have the full list of members.

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Connecticut
Delaware
Georgia
Maryland
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Virginia

Connecticut

Count
Name
First CC
Second CC
DI
USCA
PC
SRC
1
Silas Deane
Participated
Participated
2
Eliphalet Dyer
Participated
Participated
Participated
Participated
3
Roger Sherman
Participated
Participated
Participated
Participated
Participated
Participated
4
William Williams
Participated
Participated
Participated
5
Oliver Wolcott
Participated
Participated
Participated
Participated
6
Samuel Huntington
Participated
Participated
Participated
Participated
7
Richard Law
Participated
Participated
Participated
8
Andrew Adams
Participated
9
Titus Hosmer
Participated
10
Oliver Ellsworth
Participated
Participated
Participated *
Participated
11
Jesse Root
Participated
Participated
Participated
12
Joseph Spencer
Participated
13
Benjamin Huntington
Participated
Participated
14
James Wadsworth
Participated
15
Joseph Platt Cooke
Participated
16
William Samuel Johnson
Participated
Participated
Participated
17
Stephen Mix Mitchell
Participated
Participated
18
Jonathan Sturges
Participated
Participated
19
Pierpont Edwards
Participated
Participated
20
Jeremiah Wadsworth
Participated
Participated
21
Matthew Griswald
Participated
22
Isaac Lee
Participated
23
Selah Heart
Participated
24
Zebulon Peck Jr.
Participated
25
Elisha Pitkin
Participated
26
Erastus Wolcott
Participated
27
John Watson
Participated
28
John Treadwell
Participated
29
William Judd
Participated
30
Joseph Mosely
Participated
31
Wait Goodrich
Participated
32
John Curtis
Participated
33
Asa Barns
Participated
34
John Chester
Participated
35
Roger Newberry
Participated
36
Samuel Beach
Participated
37
Daniel Holbrook
Participated
38
John Holbrook
Participated
39
Gideon Buckingham
Participated
40
Lewis Mallet
Participated
41
Joseph Hopkins
Participated
42
John Walton
Participated
43
Amasa Learned
Participated
44
Nathan Dauchy
Participated
45
James Davenport
Participated
46
John Davenport Jr.
Participated
47
Elisha Mills
Participated
48
Jeda Elderkin
Participated
49
Simeon Smith
Participated
50
Henrick Dow
Participated
51
Benjamin Dow
Participated
52
Seth Paine
Participated
53
Seth Crocker
Participated
54
Asa Witter
Participated
55
Moses Campbell
Participated
56
Moses Cleveland
Participated
57
Moses Hawley
Participated
58
Sampson Howe
Participated
59
William Danielson
Participated
60
James Bradford
Participated
61
Joshua Dunlop
Participated
62
Daniel Learned
Participated
63
Jedediah Strong
Participated
64
Charles Burrall
Participated
65
Nathan Hale
Participated
66
Daniel Miles
Participated
67
Asaph Hall
Participated
68
Isaac Burnham
Participated
69
Isaac Huntington
Participated
70
Isaac Foot
Participated
71
John Wilder
Participated
72
Caleb Holt
Participated
73
Abijah Sessions
Participated
74
Mark Prindle
Participated
75
Jedidiah Hubbell
Participated
76
Aaron Austin
Participated
77
Samuel Canfield
Participated
78
Daniel Everitt
Participated
79
Hez. Fitch
Participated
80
Jed Huntington
Participated
81
Robert Robbins
Participated
82
Dante Foot
Participated
83
Eli Hyde
Participated
84
Joseph Woodbridge
Participated
85
Stephen Billings
Participated
86
Andrew Lee
Participated
87
William Noyes
Participated
88
Joshua Raymond Jr.
Participated
89
Jereh Halsey
Participated
90
Wheeler Coit
Participated
91
Charles Phelps
Participated
92
Nathaniel Minor
Participated
93
John Phelps
Participated
94
Ephraim Root
Participated
95
Thaddeus Burr
Participated
96
Elisha Whittelsey
Participated
97
Joseph Moss White
Participated
98
Amos Mead
Participated
99
Jabez Fitch
Participated
100
Nehemiah Beardsley
Participated
101
James Potter
Participated
102
John Chandler
Participated
103
John Beach
Participated
104
Hezh Rogers
Participated
105
Leml Sanford
Participated
106
William Heron
Participated
107
Philip Bradley
Participated
108
Joshua Porter
Participated
109
Benjamin Hinman
Participated
110
Epaphras Sheldon
Participated
111
Eleazer Curtiss
Participated
112
John Whittlesey
Participated
113
Daniel Brinsmade
Participated
114
Thomas Fenn
Participated
115
David Smith
Participated
116
Robert McCane
Participated
117
Daniel Sherman
Participated
118
Samuel Orton
Participated
119
Asher Miller
Participated
120
Samuel Parsons
Participated
121
Ebenr White
Participated
122
Hezh Goodrich
Participated
123
Dyar Throok
Participated
124
Jabez Chapman
Participated
125
Samuel Chapman
Participated
126
Ichabod Warner
Participated
127
Jeremiah Ripley
Participated
128
Samuel Carver
Participated
129
Cornelius Higgins
Participated
130
Hezekiah Brainerd
Participated
131
Theophilus Morgan
Participated
132
Hezh Lane
Participated
133
William Hart
Participated
134
Samuel Shipman
Participated
135
Jeremiah West
Participated

Delaware

Count
Name
First CC
Second CC
DI
USCA
PC
SRC
1
Thomas McKean
Participated
Participated
Participated
Participated
2
George Read
Participated
Participated
Participated
Participated
3
Caesar Rodney
Participated
Participated
Participated
4
James Sykes
Participated
Participated
5
Nicholas Dyke
Participated
Participated
6
John Dickinson
Participated
Participated
Participated
7
Thomas Rodney
Participated
8
Philemon Dickinson
Participated
9
Samuel Wharton
Participated
10
Eleazer McComb
Participated
11
James Tilton
Participated
12
Gunning Bedford Jr.
Participated
Participated
Participated
13
John Vining
Participated
14
John Patten
Participated
15
William Peery
Participated
16
Allen McLane
Participated
17
Nathaniel Mitchell
Participated
18
Richard Bassett
Participated
Participated
19
Jacob Broom
Participated
20
John Ingram
Participated
21
John Jones
Participated
22
William Moore
Participated
23
William Hall
Participated
24
Thomas Laws
Participated
25
Isaac Cooper
Participated
26
Woodman Srorkly
Participated
27
John Laws
Participated
28
Thomas Evans
Participated
29
Israel Holland
Participated
30
Nicholas Ridgeley
Participated
31
Richard Smith
Participated
32
George Truitt
Participated
33
Allen McLane
Participated
34
Daniel Cummins
Participated
35
Joseph Barker
Participated
36
Edward White
Participated
37
George Manlove
Participated
38
James Latimer
Participated
39
James Black
Participated
40
John James
Participated
41
Gunning Bedford Sir.
Participated
42
Kensey Johns
Participated
43
Thomas Watson
Participated
44
Solomon Maxwell
Participated
45
Nicholas Way
Participated
46
Thomas Duff
Participated
47
Thomas Collins
Participated

Georgia

Count
Name
First CC
Second CC
DI
USCA
PC
SRC
1
Archibald Bulloch
Participated
2
John Houstoun
Participated
3
John Zubly
Participated
4
Lyman Hall
Participated
Participated
5
Button Gwinnett
Participated
Participated
6
George Walton
Participated
Participated
Participated
7
Nathan Brownson
Participated
Participated
8
Joseph Wood
Participated
9
Edward Langworthy
Participated
10
John Walton
Participated
11
William Pierce
Participated
Participated
Participated*
12
Edward Telfair
Participated
Participated
Participated
13
William Few
Participated
Participated
Participated
Participated
14
Richard Howly
Participated
Participated
15
Noble Jones
Participated
16
William Gibbons
Participated
17
William Houstoun
Participated
Participated*
18
John Habersham
Participated
Participated
19
Abraham Baldwin
Participated
Participated
20
W. Stephens
Participated
21
Jenkins Davis
Participated
22
H. Todd
Participated
23
James McNeil
Participated
24
George Matthews
Participated
25
Florence Sullivan
Participated
26
John King
Participated
27
James Powell
Participated
28
John Elliot
Participated
29
James Maxwell
Participated
30
George Handley
Participated
31
Christopher Hillary
Participated
32
J. Mason
Participated
33
Henry Osborne
Participated
34
James Seagrove
Participated
35
Jacob Weed
Participated
36
Jared Irwin
Participated
37
John Rutherford
Participated
38
Robert Christmas
Participated
39
Thomas Daniel
Participated
40
R. Middleton
Participated

Maryland

Count
Name
First CC
Second CC
DI
USCA
PC
SRC
1
Samuel Chase
Participated
Participated
Participated
Participated
2
Robert Goldsborough
Participated
Participated
Participated
3
Thomas Johnson
Participated
Participated
4
William Paca
Participated
Participated
Participated
Participated
5
Matthew Tilghman
Participated
Participated
6
John Hall
Participated
7
John Rogers
Participated
8
Robert Alexander
Participated
9
Charles Carroll
Participated
10
Benjamin Rumsey
Participated
11
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Participated
Participated
12
William Smith
Participated
Participated
13
William Carmicheal
Participated
14
James Forbes
Participated
15
John Henry
Participated
Participated
16
George Plater
Participated
Participated
17
Daniel Jenifer
Participated
18
John Hanson
Participated
Participated
19
Thomas Stone
Participated
Participated
Participated
20
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
Participated
Participated
21
Richard Potts
Participated
Participated
22
Daniel Carroll
Participated
Participated
23
Turbutt Wright
Participated
24
William Hemsley
Participated
Participated
25
Thomas Sim Lee
Participated
Participated
26
Jeremiah Chase
Participated
27
Edward Lloyd
Participated
Participated
28
James McHenry
Participated
Participated
Participated
29
William Hindman
Participated
30
William Harrison Jr.
Participated
31
Nathaniel Ramsey
Participated
32
Uriah Forrest
Participated
33
David Ross
Participated
34
Benjamin Contee
Participated
35
John Eager Howard
Participated
36
Joshua Seney
Participated
37
Luther Martin
Participated*
38
John Mercer
Participated*
39
Richard Barnes
Participated
40
Charges Chilton
Participated
41
N. Sewall
Participated
42
William Tilghman
Participated
43
Donaldson Yeates
Participated
44
Isaac Perkins
Participated
45
William Granger
Participated
46
Joseph Wilkinson
Participated
47
Charles Grahame
Participated
48
John Chesley Jr.
Participated
49
G. Brown
Participated
50
J. Parnham
Participated
51
Zeph. Turner
Participated
52
Michael Stone
Participated
53
John Stevens
Participated
54
George Gale
Participated
55
Henry Waggaman
Participated
56
John Stewart
Participated
57
John Gale
Participated
58
N. Hammond
Participated
59
Abraham Faw
Participated
60
J. Richardson
Participated
61
William Richardson
Participated
62
Matt. Driver
Participated
63
Peter Edmondson
Participated
64
John Coulter
Participated
65
Daniel Sullivan
Participated
66
James Shaw
Participated
67
Jos. Gilpin
Participated
68
H. Hollingsworth
Participated
69
James Heron
Participated
70
Samuel Evans
Participated
71
Fielder Bowie
Participated
72
Osb. Sprigg
Participated
73
Benjamin Hall
Participated
74
George Digges
Participated
75
Nicholas Carroll
Participated
76
A. Hanson
Participated
77
J. Tilghman
Participated
78
John Seney
Participated
79
James Hollyday
Participated
80
Peter Chaille
Participated
81
James Martin
Participated
82
William Morris
Participated
83
John Done
Participated
84
Thomas Johnson
Participated
85
Thomas Sprigg
Participated
86
John Stull
Participated
87
Moses Rawlings
Participated
88
Henry Shryock
Participated
89
Thomas Cramphin
Participated
90
Richard Thomas
Participated
91
Will Deakins Jr.
Participated
92
Ben. Edwards
Participated

Massachusetts

Count
Name
First CC
Second CC
DI
USCA
PC
SRC
1
John Adams
Participated
Participated
Participated
355 Delegates
2
Samuel Adams
Participated
Participated
Participated
Participated
I cant
3
Thomas Cushing
Participated
Participated
find a full
4
Robert Paine
Participated
Participated
Participated
list of names
5
John Hancock
Participated
Participated
of the
6
Elbridge Gerry
Participated
Participated
Participated
Participated *
delegates
7
Francis Dana
Participated
Participated
:(
8
James Lovell
Participated
Participated
9
Samuel Holten
Participated
Participated
10
George Patridge
Participated
Participated
11
Artemas Ward
Participated
Participated
12
Samuel Osgood
Participated
13
Jonathan Jackson
Participated
14
John Lowell
Participated
15
Nathaniel Gorham
Participated
Participated
16
Stephen Higginson
Participated
17
Rufus King
Participated
Participated
18
Theodore Sedgwick
Participated
19
Nathan Dane
Participated
20
Samuel Allyne Otis
Participated
21
George Thatcher
Participated
22
Caleb Strong
Participated *

New Hampshire

Count
Name
First CC
Second CC
DI
USCA
PC
SRC
1
Nathaniel Folsom
Participated
Participated
I cant
2
John Sullivan
Participated
Participated
Participated
find a full
3
John Langdon
Participated
Participated
Participated
list of names
4
Josiah Bartlett
Participated
Participated
of the
5
Matthew Thornton
Participated
Participated
delegates
6
William Whipple
Participated
Participated
:(
7
George Frost
Participated
8
John Wentworth Jr.
Participated
9
Woodbury Langdon
Participated
10
Nathaniel Peabody
Participated
11
Samuel Livermore
Participated
Participated
12
John Taylor Gilman
Participated
13
Phillips White
Participated
14
Abiel Foster
Participated
15
Jonathan Blanchard
Participated
16
Pierse Long
Participated
17
Nicholas Gilman
Participated
Participated
18
Paine Wingate
Participated

New Jersey

Count
Name
First CC
Second CC
DI
USCA
PC
SRC
1
Stephane Crane
Participated
Participated
2
John Hart
Participated
Participated
Participated
3
James Kinsey
Participated
Participated
4
William Livingston
Participated
Participated
Participated
5
Richard Smith
Participated
Participated
6
John Hart
Participated
7
Francis Hopkinson
Participated
Participated
8
Richard Stockon
Participated
Participated
9
Jonathan Sergeant
Participated
10
Abraham Clark
Participated
Participated
Participated
11
John Witherspoon
Participated
Participated
Participated
Participated
12
Jonathan Elmer
Participated
Participated
13
Elias Boudinot
Participated
14
Frederick Frelinghuysen
Participated
Participated
Participated
15
Nathaniel Scudder
Participated
16
John Fell
Participated
Participated
17
William Houston
Participated
Participated
Participated*
18
William Burnet
Participated
Participated
19
Elias Boudinot
Participated
20
Silas Condict
Participated
21
John Stevens
Participated
22
John Beatty
Participated
Participated
23
Samuel Dick
Participated
24
Charles Stewart
Participated
25
Josiah Hornblower
Participated
26
John Cleves Symmes
Participated
27
Lambert Cadwalader
Participated
28
James Schureman
Participated
29
Jonathan Dayton
Participated
30
David Brearly
Participated
Participated
31
Johnathan Dayton
Participated
32
William Paterson
Participated
33
Peter Zabriskie
Participated
34
Cornelius Hennion
Participated
35
John Chetwood
Participated
36
Samuel Hay
Participated
37
David Crane
Participated
38
John Neilson
Participated
39
Benjamin Manning
Participated
40
Elisha Lawrence
Participated
41
Samuel Breese
Participated
42
William Crawford
Participated
43