1b+Founding+Fathers

 ​ = The Founding Fathers = = =

The U.S. Constitution was written by 55 delegates attending the Constitutional Convention held in Philedelphia from May 25, 1787 through the final signing of the document on September 17, 1787. Twelve of the thirteen states sent delegates. Rhode Island refused.

The original purpose for this meeting was not the drafting of a new constitution, but to strengthen the Articles of Confederation. However, the delegates quickly discerned that a new constitution was needed. Only 39 of the delegates signed the final document. There were several who either left the convention earlier or who refused to sign. These delgates have an asterisk (*) after their name in the listings below. Here is FUN link to explore which of these delegates you might resemble! Take the [|QUIZ] and find out !!! Connecticut ​ [|Roger Sherman​] [|William Samuel Johnson] [|Oliver Ellsworth] (Elsworth) * Delaware [|George Read] [|Gunning Bedford, Jr.] [|John Dickinson] [|Richard Bassett] (Basset) [|Jacob Broom]

Georgia [|William Few] [|Abraham Baldwin] [|William Houstoun] * [|William L. Pierce] *

Massachussetts [|Rufus King] [|Nathaniel Gorham] [|Elbridge Gerry] * [|Caleb Strong]*



Maryland <span style="color: #00ffe8; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">[|James McHenry] [|Daniel Carroll] [|Dan of St. Thomas Jenifer] [|Luther Martin] * [|John F. Mercer] * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">New Hampshire <span style="color: #00ffe8; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">[|John Langdon] [|Nicholas Gilman] <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">New Jersey <span style="color: #00ffe8; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">[|William Livingston] [|David Brearly] (Brearley) [|William Patterson] (Paterson) [|Jonathan Dayton] [|William C. Houston] * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">New York <span style="color: #00ffe8; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">[|Alexander Hamilton] [|John Lansing, Jr.] * [|Robert Yates] *

<span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">North Carolina <span style="color: #00ffe8; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">[|William Blount] [|Richard Dobbs Spaight] [|Hugh Williamson] [|William R. Davie] * [|Alexander Martin] *

<span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Pennsylvania <span style="color: #00ffe8; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">[|Benjamin Franklin] [|Thomas Mifflin] [|Robert Morris] [|George Clymer] [|Thomas Fitzsimmons] (FitzSimons) [|Jared Ingersoll] [|Gouverneur Morris] [|James Wilson]

<span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">South Carolina <span style="color: #00ffe8; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">[|John Rutledge] [|Charles Cotesworth Pinckney] [|Charles Pinckney] [|Pierce Butler] <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Virginia <span style="color: #00ffe8; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">[|John Blair] [|James Madison, Jr.] [|George Washington] [|George Mason] * [|James McClurg] * [|Edmund J. Randolph] * [|George Wythe] *