Presidential history

Who Signed the United States Constitution?

By Research History 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.