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Contents of this page:
• Signers of Declaration of Independence.
• Signers of the Constitution.
• Delegates to the Constitutional Convention that did not sign.

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Signers of the Declaration of Independence

Massachusetts John Hancock Samuel Adams John Adams Robert Treat Paine Elbridge Gerry   New Hampshire Josiah Bartlett William Whipple Matthew Thornton   Rhode Island Stephen Hopkins William Ellery

Connecticut Roger Sherman Samuel Huntington William Williams Oliver Wolcott   New York William Floyd Philip Livingston Francis Lewis Lewis Morris   New Jersey Richard Stockton John Witherspoon Francis Hopkinson John Hart Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin Franklin John Morton George Clymer James Smith George Taylor James Wilson George Ross   Delaware Caesar Rodney George Read Thomas M'Kean

Maryland Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carrol   Virginia George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton

North Carolina William Hooper Joseph Hewes John Penn   South Carolina Edward Rutledge Thomas Heyward Thomas Lynch Arthur Middleton   Georgia Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall George Walton

Also see Signers and Their Fates

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Signers of the Constitution

39 delegates (of 55) who signed the Constitution.
[Number of delegates indicated by each state.]

George Washington (VA) signed as President of the Convention.

New Hampshire [2] John Langdon Nicholas Gilman   Massachusetts [4] Rufus King Nathaniel Gorham   Connecticut [3] Roger Sherman William Samuel Johnson   New York [3] Alexander Hamilton   New Jersey [5] William Livingston David Brearley William Patterson Jonathan Dayton

Pennsylvania [8] Benjamin Franklin Thomas Mifflin Robert Morris George Clymer Thomas FitzSimons Jared Ingersoll James Wilson Gouverneur Morris   Delaware [5] George Read Gunning Bedford, Jr. John Dickinson Richard Bassett Jacob Broom   Maryland [5] James McHenry Daniel Carroll Dan of St. Thomas Jenifer

Virginia [7] John Blair James Madison and, G. Washington   North Carolina [5] William Blount Richard Dobbs Spaight Hugh Williamson   South Carolina [4] John Rutledge Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Charles Pinckney Pierce Butler   Georgia [4] William Few Abraham Baldwin

Note: States with at least one delegate present had one vote each. The Convention had been called by Congress, so the delegates that went home were actually abstaining from voting within their state's caucuses. Therefore, the final vote to approve the draft and send it to Congress was 12-0. Congress then sent it to the state legislatures for ratification (or rejection). Ratification required 9 states. The Constitution went into effect with ratification by New Hampshire on June 21, 1788, leaving New York, North Carolina, Virginia and Rhode Island out in the cold. But Virginia got on board June 25 and New York a month later. However, North Carolina delayed 17 months and Rhode Island nearly two years before they came in from the cold.

Notes on the Constitutional Convention:
-- Some delegates left early due to illness, frustration, business emergencies, or they returned home to complain to their legislatures.
-- Like Rhode Island, New York saw no need for a convention but NY sent delegates at the last minute. However, only Hamilton stayed and signed although he objected to the failure of the proposed "plan" to call for a stronger central government. Hamilton saw no need for state legislatures! Its safe to say that he preferred something closer to a pure democracy over a strong republic.
-- Thomas Jefferson was not a delegate because he was serving as emissary to France. But, as a courtesy, he received a copy of the final document before it went to the states.