Presidential history

Who Signed the United States Constitution?

May 6, 2024 /

These are the 39 delegates who signed the Constitution on September 17, 1787, and the states they represented:

Virginia

John Blair
James Madison*
George Washington

New Hampshire

Nicholas Gilman
John Langdon

Massachusetts

Nathaniel Gorham
Rufus King

Connecticut

William Samuel Johnson
Roger Sherman

New York

Alexander Hamilton

New Jersey

David Brearly
Jonathan Dayton
William Livingston
William Paterson

Pennsylvania

George Clymer
Thomas Fitzsimmons
Benjamin Franklin
Jared Ingersoll
Thomas Mifflin
Gouvernor Morris
Robert Morris
James Wilson

Delaware

Richard Bassett
Gunning Bedford, Jr.
Jacob Broom
John Dickinson
George Read

Maryland

Daniel Carroll
Daniel Jenifer
James McHenry

North Carolina

William Blount
Richard Dobbs Spaight
Hugh Williamson

South Carolina

Pierce Butler
Charles Pinckney
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
John Rutledge

Georgia

Abraham Baldwin
William Few, Jr.

Rhode Island, one of the original 13 colonies, did not immediately sign the Constitution of the United States (Text), but did so three years later and became a state in 1790. See United States Constitution.
*The streets of Madison, Wisconsin, are named after the signers.