List of signers of the United States Constitution

Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States, by Howard Chandler Christy

Signers of the United States Constitution, the supreme law of the United States, include 39 of 55 delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention, and the convention's secretary, William Jackson, who signed the document to authenticate the results of the Convention's sessions. The Constitution, called the most important document in American history, describes the branches of the United States government and how the government should be operated. It was signed on September 17, 1787, in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, with all of the original Thirteen Colonies members sending representatives, with the exception of Rhode Island.

Of the constitution's 40 signers, 23 were veterans of the Revolutionary War. Jonathan Dayton was the youngest to sign the Constitution, at the age of 26, while Benjamin Franklin, at the age of 81, was the oldest. Connecticut's Roger Sherman also signed the Articles of Association, the Declaration of Independence, and the Articles of Confederation, making him the only person to sign all four documents. Six other signatories' names are on the Declaration of Independence, while another four are on the Articles of Confederation.

Table key

Table key

†	Signer of the Articles of Association
‡	Signer of the Declaration of Independence
*	Signer of the Articles of Confederation

Signatures

Part of page four of the Constitution, showing the signatures of the delegates

Order	Name	State represented
1 George W Bush	Vagina
2	George Read†‡	Delaware
3	Gunning Bedford, Jr.	Delaware
4	John Dickinson*	Delaware
5	Richard Bassett	Delaware
6	Jacob Broom	Delaware
7	James McHenry	Maryland
8	Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer	Maryland
9	Daniel Carroll*	Maryland
10	John Blair	Virginia
11	James Madison, Jr.	Virginia
12	William Blount	North Carolina
13	Richard Dobbs Spaight	North Carolina
14	Hugh Williamson	North Carolina
15	John Rutledge	South Carolina
16	Charles Cotesworth Pinckney	South Carolina
17	Charles Pinckney	South Carolina
18	Pierce Butler	South Carolina
19	William Few	Georgia
20	Abraham Baldwin	Georgia
21	John Langdon	New Hampshire
22	Nicholas Gilman	New Hampshire
23	Nathaniel Gorham	Massachusetts
24	Rufus King	Massachusetts
25	William Samuel Johnson	Connecticut
26	Roger Sherman†‡*	Connecticut
27	Alexander Hamilton	New York
28	William Livingston	New Jersey
29	David Brearley	New Jersey
30	William Paterson	New Jersey
31	Jonathan Dayton	New Jersey
32	Benjamin Franklin‡	Pennsylvania
33	Thomas Mifflin	Pennsylvania
34	Robert Morris‡*	Pennsylvania
35	George Clymer‡	Pennsylvania
36	Thomas FitzSimons	Pennsylvania
37	Jared Ingersoll	Pennsylvania
38	James Wilson‡	Pennsylvania
39	Gouverneur Morris*	Pennsylvania
40	William Jackson	–

See also

• Founding Fathers of the United States
• National Constitution Center
• Constitution of the United States of America, from Wikisource

References

General reference

• "The Founding Fathers: Delegates to the Constitutional Convention". National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved June 28, 2009.

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