List of Delegates
# | Name | Colony | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Folsom, NathanielNathaniel Folsom | New Hampshire | |
2 | Sullivan, JohnJohn Sullivan | New Hampshire | |
3 | Adams, JohnJohn Adams | Massachusetts | Lawyer, first vice-president of the United States, and second President |
4 | Adams, SamuelSamuel Adams | Massachusetts | Maltster; Patriot |
5 | Cushing, ThomasThomas Cushing | Massachusetts | |
6 | Paine, Robert TreatRobert Treat Paine | Massachusetts | |
7 | Hopkins, StephenStephen Hopkins | Rhode Island | Authored pamphlet: 'The Rights of the Colonies" |
8 | Ward, SamuelSamuel Ward | Rhode Island | |
9 | Deane, SilasSilas Deane | Connecticut | |
10 | Dyer, EliphaletEliphalet Dyer | Connecticut | |
11 | Sherman, RogerRoger Sherman | Connecticut | |
12 | Duane, JamesJames Duane | New York | |
13 | Jay, JohnJohn Jay | New York | Lawyer; First Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, co-wrote The Federalist Papers |
14 | Livingston, PhilipPhilip Livingston | New York | |
15 | Low, IsaacIsaac Low | New York | |
16 | Boerum, SimonSimon Boerum | New York | |
17 | Haring, JohnJohn Haring | New York | |
18 | Wisner, HenryHenry Wisner | New York | |
19 | Floyd, WilliamWilliam Floyd | New York | |
20 | Alsop, JohnJohn Alsop | New York | |
21 | Crane, StephenStephen Crane | New Jersey | |
22 | De Hart, JohnJohn De Hart | New Jersey | |
23 | Kinsey, JamesJames Kinsey | New Jersey | |
24 | Livingston, WilliamWilliam Livingston | New Jersey | |
25 | Smith, RichardRichard Smith | New Jersey | |
26 | Biddle, EdwardEdward Biddle | Pennsylvania | |
27 | Dickinson, JohnJohn Dickinson | Pennsylvania | author of 'Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania' |
28 | Galloway, JosephJoseph Galloway | Pennsylvania | Originator of the Galloway Plan of Union |
29 | Humphreys, CharlesCharles Humphreys | Pennsylvania | |
30 | Mifflin, ThomasThomas Mifflin | Pennsylvania | |
31 | Morton, JohnJohn Morton | Pennsylvania | |
32 | Rhoads, SamuelSamuel Rhoads | Pennsylvania | |
33 | Ross, GeorgeGeorge Ross | Pennsylvania | |
34 | McKean, ThomasThomas McKean | Delaware | |
35 | Read, GeorgeGeorge Read | Delaware | |
36 | Rodney, CaesarCaesar Rodney | Delaware | |
37 | Chase, SamuelSamuel Chase | Maryland | |
38 | Goldsborough, RobertRobert Goldsborough | Maryland | |
39 | Johnson, ThomasThomas Johnson | Maryland | |
40 | Paca, WilliamWilliam Paca | Maryland | |
41 | Tilghman, MatthewMatthew Tilghman | Maryland | |
42 | Bland, RichardRichard Bland | Virginia | |
43 | Harrison, BenjaminBenjamin Harrison | Virginia | |
44 | Henry, PatrickPatrick Henry | Virginia | Prominent Virginian lawyer, creator of the 'Virginian Stamp Act Resolves'. |
45 | Lee, Richard HenryRichard Henry Lee | Virginia | Would later submit movement for independence from Britain at the Second Continental Congress. |
46 | Pendleton, EdmundEdmund Pendleton | Virginia | |
47 | Randolph, PeytonPeyton Randolph | Virginia | Presided over this first gathering of a Congress. |
48 | Washington, GeorgeGeorge Washington | Virginia | Future commander of the Continental Army, and first president of the United States |
49 | Caswell, RichardRichard Caswell | North Carolina | |
50 | Hewes, JosephJoseph Hewes | North Carolina | |
51 | Hooper, WilliamWilliam Hooper | North Carolina | |
52 | Gadsden, ChristopherChristopher Gadsden | South Carolina | |
53 | Lynch, Jr., ThomasThomas Lynch, Jr. | South Carolina | |
54 | Middleton, HenryHenry Middleton | South Carolina | |
55 | Rutledge, EdwardEdward Rutledge | South Carolina | |
56 | Rutledge, JohnJohn Rutledge | South Carolina |
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