| Franklin | | Virginian who served in England's House of Burgess prior to coming to the colonies; he was on the U.S. Supreme Court |
| Gouverneur Morris | | the father of the Constitution; Virginian who wrote most of it, The Federalist Papers and the Bill of Rights to appease Anti-Federalists; later helped found the Democrat-Republicans with Jefferson |
| Robert Morris | | Pennsylvanian educated in Scotland; professor of Latin at the College of Philadelphia; defended loyalists in court; lost money to Western land speculations |
| Blair | | drafter of the Articles of Confederation; during Constitutional Convention, helped formulate the Connecticut, or Great, Compromise related to congressional representation |
| Williamson | | New Jersey lawyer who was in the NJ militia during the Revolution and taken prisoner by the British |
| Fitzsimmons | | New Jersey lawyer who during the Revolutionary War was arrested for high treason |
| Baldwin | | strong advocate of nationalism and aristocratic rule; from Pennsylvania; shares his name; later strong supporter of Erie Canal |
| Spaight | | Georgian who was a Yale graduate, minister and lawyer |
| Madison | | merchant who served as governor in Pennsylvania after the Revolutionary War; Democratic-Republican with Jefferson, etc. |
| Hamilton | | Massachusetts lawyer and farmer who was among the youngest members of the Constitutional Convention; wanted to eliminate slavery |
| Langdon | | Pennylvanian who shares name with Gouverneur; after Constitutional Convention, made wild land speculations in the West and thrown into debtor's prison |
| Clymer | | Delaware lawyer and planter who served in the Delaware militia during the Revolutionary War |
| King | | New Hampshire storekeeper |
| McHenry | | Maryland planter who supported building canales to encourage transportation of goods from the coast to the interior |
| Johnson | | New York lawyer who collaborated with Jay and Madison in The Federalist Papers; later secretary of treasury under Washington during which he introdouced plans supporting manufacturing through the "American System" and the establishment of a national bank; killed in duel with Aaron Burr |
| Paterson | | Delaware lawyer who served in the Continental Army and Continental Congress; attorney general of Delaware |
| Charles Pinckney | | North Carolinian Presbyterian minister and math professor; close friend of Franklin |
| Bedford | | North Carolinian who was educated in Scotland; was governor of NC and a member of the House; killed in a duel |
| Sherman | | South Carolinian who once served in the British Army; born in Ireland and came to colonies where he was a planter, but he lost much of his property during the Revolutionary War |
| Mifflin | | South Carolinian who was educated by his father; a lawyer and planter who helped organize SC's government and favored aristocracy/elite rule |
| Basset | | Massachusetts merchant with little formal education; had speculative land schemes that later led to disgrace |
| Brearley | | New Hampshire merchant who had been a Federalist during the Constitutional Conventions but later abandoned the party in support of the new Democratic-Republicans of Jefferson |
| Carroll | | Pennsylvania lawyer who actually was a loyalist who left America for London but later returned to support the American Revolution |
| Rutledge | | shares a name but without the middle name; from South Carolina who was a lawyer and served in various political offices including SC governor |
| Broom | | wealthy Pennsylvania merchant who supported the bicameral legislature and penal reform in that he did not want capital punishment |
| Ingersoll | | born in Ireland but eventually settled in Pennsylvania; commanded the militia during the Revolution; was a strong Federalist |
| Blount | | Maryland physician who served as a military surgeon during the Revolutionary War and was later on Washington's staff |
| Butler | | New Jersey lawyer and farmer who was opposed to slavery; supported the New Jersey Plan related to representation in Congress |
| Linvingston | | Delaware merchant in shipping and trade |
| Dayton | | the eldest statesman and "great compromiser;" known still for his Poor Richard's Almanac |
| Gorham | | Maryland planter and conservative nationalist |
| Charles Cotesworth Pinckney | | North Carolinian who was educated at home; became a lawyer and was also a land speculator in Tennessee |
| Jenifer | | South Carolinian who shares a name but with the middle name; later became involved with the XYZ Affair involving France |
| Few | | Delaware lawyer who was only delegate at the Continental Congress to vote against independence on July 2, 1776; but he did sign Declaration |
| Read | | did not have much formal schooling, but was a self-taught lawyer from Georgia |
| Wilson | | did not want war with Britain, instead advocating peaceful settlement; from Connecticut |
| Gilman | | New Jersey capital named for this lawyer who co-authored the New Jersey Plan related to congressional representation |
