Key People
The founding fathers, legislators, and activists who shaped the Constitution.

George Washington
President of the Constitutional Convention & 1st U.S. President

James Madison
Signer, Father of the Constitution
Alexander Hamilton
Signer, Author of the Federalist Papers

Benjamin Franklin
Signer, Elder Statesman
Gouverneur Morris
Signer, Penman of the Constitution
James Wilson
Signer, Legal Scholar
Roger Sherman
Signer, Architect of the Great Compromise
John Dickinson
Signer, 'Penman of the Revolution'
Rufus King
Signer, Nationalist Orator
William Samuel Johnson
Signer, President of Columbia College
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Signer, South Carolina Statesman
Charles Pinckney
Signer, Proposer of the Pinckney Plan
Pierce Butler
Signer, Champion of National Unity
Abraham Baldwin
Signer from Georgia
William Few
Signer from Georgia
William Blount
Signer from North Carolina
Richard Dobbs Spaight
Signer from North Carolina
Hugh Williamson
Signer from North Carolina
John Blair Jr.
Signer from Virginia
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
Signer from Maryland
Daniel Carroll
Signer from Maryland
James McHenry
Signer from Maryland
George Read
Signer from Delaware
Gunning Bedford Jr.
Signer from Delaware
Jacob Broom
Signer from Delaware
Richard Bassett
Signer from Delaware
Robert Morris
Signer, 'Financier of the Revolution'
Thomas FitzSimons
Signer from Pennsylvania
Jared Ingersoll
Signer from Pennsylvania
Thomas Mifflin
Signer from Pennsylvania
George Clymer
Signer from Pennsylvania
William Livingston
Signer, Governor of New Jersey

David Brearley
Signer from New Jersey
William Paterson
Signer, Proposer of the New Jersey Plan

Jonathan Dayton
Signer, Youngest Delegate
Nathaniel Gorham
Signer, Chairman of the Committee of the Whole
John Langdon
Signer from New Hampshire
Nicholas Gilman
Signer from New Hampshire
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President, Author of the Declaration of Independence
John Adams
2nd U.S. President, Founding Father
John Jay
First Chief Justice, Co-author of The Federalist Papers
Abraham Lincoln
16th U.S. President, Preserved the Union
John Bingham
Principal framer of the 14th Amendment
Thaddeus Stevens
Leader of the Radical Republicans
Ulysses S. Grant
18th U.S. President, Enforced Reconstruction
Susan B. Anthony
Women's Suffrage Leader
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Suffragist, Author of the Declaration of Sentiments
John Hancock
Signer, President of the Second Continental Congress