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- John Adams [r]: (1735-1826) Second U.S. President (from 1797 to 1801), attorney who successfully defended participants of the Boston Massacre of 1770, and a U.S. founding father. [e]
- Samuel Adams [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Josiah Bartlett [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Carter Braxton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Charles Carroll [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Samuel Chase [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Abraham Clark [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George Clymer [r]: (1739–1813) a member of the Pennsylvania delegation to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (a.k.a., the Philadelphia convention) which wrote the U.S. Constitution. [e]
- William Ellery [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Floyd [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Benjamin Franklin [r]: 1706-1790, American statesman and scientist, based in Philadelphia. [e]
- Elbridge Gerry [r]: (1744–1814) a member of the Massachusetts delegation to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (a.k.a., the Philadelphia convention) which wrote the U.S. Constitution. [e]
- Button Gwinnett [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Hancock [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lyman Hall [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Benjamin Harrison [r]: (1726-1791) one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, who co-signed the U.S. Declaration of Independence; a merchant from Virginia. [e]
- John Hart [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Joseph Hewes [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Heyward, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Hooper [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Stephen Hopkins [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Francis Hopkinson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Samuel Huntington [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Jefferson [r]: (1743-1826) Third U.S. President (from 1801 to 1809), first U.S. Secretary of State (from 1789 to 1793), author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and founder of the University of Virginia. [e]
- Francis Lightfoot Lee [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Henry Lee [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Francis Lewis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Philip Livingston [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Lynch, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas McKean [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Arthur Middleton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lewis Morris [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Morris [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Morton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Nelson, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Paca [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Penn [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Treat Paine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George Read [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Caesar Rodney [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George Ross [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Benjamin Rush [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Edward Rutledge [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Roger Sherman [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Smith [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Stockton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Stone [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George Taylor [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Charles Thomson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Matthew Thornton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George Walton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Whipple [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Williams [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Wilson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Witherspoon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oliver Wolcott [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George Wythe [r]: Add brief definition or description
Delegates to the Constitutional Convention
Delegates who signed
- Abraham Baldwin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Bassett [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gunning Bedford, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Blair [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Blount [r]: Add brief definition or description
- David Brearly [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jacob Broom [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pierce Butler [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Daniel Carroll [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George Clymer [r]: (1739–1813) a member of the Pennsylvania delegation to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (a.k.a., the Philadelphia convention) which wrote the U.S. Constitution. [e]
- Jonathan Dayton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Dickinson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Few [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Fitzsimons [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Benjamin Franklin [r]: 1706-1790, American statesman and scientist, based in Philadelphia. [e]
- Nicholas Gilman [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nathaniel Gorham [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alexander Hamilton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jared Ingersoll [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Jackson [r]: Add brief definition or description (Secretary)
- Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Samuel Johnson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rufus King [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Langdon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Livingston [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Madison [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James McHenry [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Mifflin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gouverneur Morris [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Morris [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Paterson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Charles Pinckney [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George Read [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Rutledge [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Roger Sherman [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Dobbs Spaight [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George Washington [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hugh Williamson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Wilson [r]: Add brief definition or description
Delegates who left the Convention without signing
- William Richardson Davie [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oliver Ellsworth [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Houston [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Houstoun [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Lansing, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alexander Martin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Luther Martin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James McClurg [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Francis Mercer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Pierce [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Caleb Strong [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George Wythe [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Yates [r]: Add brief definition or description
Delegates who refused to sign
- Elbridge Gerry [r]: (1744–1814) a member of the Massachusetts delegation to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (a.k.a., the Philadelphia convention) which wrote the U.S. Constitution. [e]
- George Mason [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Edmund Randolph [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other Founders
- Ethan Allen [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Egbert Benson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Bland [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George Clinton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Patrick Henry [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Michael Hillegas [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Jay [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Henry Knox [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Henry Lee III [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Sim Lee [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Robert R. Livingston [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Marshall [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Philip Mazzei [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Monroe [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Otis, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Paine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Peyton Randolph [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Rickman [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben [r]: Add brief definition or description