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 total there were 1,969 men who participated in these six key assemblages of our nation's founding. If you exclude the state ratifying conventions then the total number is 360. These men were the upper echelon of politics in the United States at the time; there were hundreds of thousands more men and women who participated and some sacrificed for our nation's independence.

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"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. (Y) means that they voted for the Constitution while (N) means they voted against, (A) means they were absent for the vote, and (NV) means they were present but did not vote.