Elliot's Debates: Volume 1
List of the Members of the Federal Convention, which formed the Constitution of the United States
| From, | Attended | |||
| NEW HAMPSHIRE, | 1. John Langdon, | July 23, 1787. | ||
| John Pickering, | ||||
| 2. Nicholas Gilman, | July 23. | |||
| Benjamin West. | ||||
| MASSACHUSETTS, | Francis Dana, | |||
| Elbridge Gerry, | May 29. | |||
| 3. Nathaniel Gorham, | May 28. | |||
| 4. Rufus King, | May 25. | |||
| Caleb Strong | May 28. | |||
| RHODE ISLAND, | [No appointment.] | |||
| CONNECTICUT, | 5. Wm. Sam. Johnson, | June 2. | ||
| 6. Roger Sherman, | May 30. | |||
| Oliver Ellsworth, | May 29. | |||
| Robert Yates, | May 25. | |||
| NEW YORK, | 7. Alexander Hamilton, | do. | ||
| John Lansing, | June 2. | |||
| NEW JERSEY, | 8. William Livingston, | June 5. | ||
| 9. David Brearly, | May 25. | |||
| William C. Houston, | do. | |||
| 10. William Patterson, | do. | |||
| John Nelson, | ||||
| Abraham Clark, | ||||
| 11. Jonathan Dayton, | June 21. | |||
| PENNSYLVANIA, | 12. Benjamin Franklin, | May 28, 1787. | ||
| 13. Thomas Mifflin, | do. | |||
| 14. Robert Morris, | May 25. | |||
| 15. George Clymer, | May 28. | |||
| 16. Thomas Fitzsimons, | May 25. | |||
| 17. Jared Ingersoll, | May 28. | |||
| 18. James Wilson, | May 25. | |||
| 19. Gouverneur Morris, | do. | |||
| DELAWARE, | 20. George Read, | do. | ||
| 21. Gunning Bedford, Jun. | May 25. | |||
| 22. John Dickinson, | do. | |||
| 23. Richard Basset, | May 25. | |||
| 24. Jacob Broom, | do. | |||
| MARYLAND | 25. James MHenry, | do. | ||
| 26. Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, | June 2. | |||
| 27. Daniel Carroll, | July 9. | |||
| John Francis Mercer, | August 6. | |||
| Luther Martin, | June 9. | |||
| VIRGINIA | 28. George Washington, | May 25. | ||
| Patrick Henry, | (declined). | |||
| Edmund Randolph, | May 25. | |||
| 29. John Blair, | do. | |||
| 30. James Madison, Jun., | do. | |||
| George Mason, | do. | |||
| George Wythe, | do. | |||
| J. MClurg, [room of P. Henry.], | do. | |||
| North Carolina | Richard Caswell, | (resigned). | ||
| Alexander Martin, | May 25. | |||
| William R. Davie, | do. | |||
| 31. Wm. Blount, [room of R. Caswell,], | June 20. | |||
| Willie Jones, | (declined.) | |||
| 32. Richard D. Spaight, | May 25. | |||
| 33. H. Williamson, [room of W. Jones.] | May 25. | |||
| South Carolina | 34. John Rutledge, | May 25. | ||
| South Carolina | 35. Charles C. Pinckney, | do. | ||
| 36. Charles Pinckney, | do. | |||
| 37. Pierce Butler, | do. | |||
| GEORGIA | 38. William Few, | do. | ||
| 39. Abraham Pierce, | June 11. | |||
| William Pierce, | May 31. | |||
| George Walton, | ||||
| William Houstoun, | June 7. | |||
| Nathaniel Pendleton, |
| Those with numbers before their names signed the Constitution, | 39 | |
| Those in Italics never attended, | 10 | |
| Members who attended, but did not sign the Constitution, | 16 | |
| 65 |
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