Our Founding FathersWho Were They? John Adams: Signed the Declaration of Independence. Samuel Adams: Signed the Declaration of Independence Josiah Bartlett: Signed the Declaration of Independence Carter Braxton: Signed the Declaration of Independence Charles Carroll: Signed the Declaration of Independence Samuel Chase: Signed the Declaration of Independence Abraham Clark: Signed the Declaration of Independence George Clymer: Signed the Declaration of Independence William Ellery: Signed the Declaration of Independence William Floyd: Signed the Declaration of Independence Benjamin Franklin: Signed the Declaration of Independence Elbridge Gerry: Signed the Declaration of Independence Button Gwinnett: Signed the Declaration of Independence Lyman Hall: Signed the Declaration of Independence John Hancock: Signed the Declaration of Independence Benjamin Harrison: Signed the Declaration of Independence John Hart: Signed the Declaration of Independence Joseph Hewes: Signed the Declaration of Independence Thomas Heyward, Jr.: Signed the Declaration of Independence William Hooper: Signed the Declaration of Independence Stephen Hopkins: Signed the Declaration of Independence Francis Hopkinson: Signed the Declaration of Independence Samuel Huntington: Signed the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson: Signed the Declaration of Independence Francis Lightfoot Lee: Signed the Declaration of Independence Richard Henry Lee: Signed the Declaration of Independence Francis Lewis: Signed the Declaration of Independence Philip Livingston: Signed the Declaration of Independence Thomas Lynch, Jr.: Signed the Declaration of Independence Thomas McKean: Signed the Declaration of Independence Arthur Middleton: Signed the Declaration of Independence Lewis Morris: Signed the Declaration of Independence Robert Morris: Signed the Declaration of Independence John Morton: Signed the Declaration of Independence Thomas Nelson, Jr.: Signed the Declaration of Independence William Paca: Signed the Declaration of Independence Robert Treat Paine: Signed the Declaration of Independence John Penn: Signed the Declaration of Independence George Read: Signed the Declaration of Independence Caesar Rodney: Signed the Declaration of Independence George Ross: Signed the Declaration of Independence Benjamin Rush: Signed the Declaration of Independence Edward Rutledge: Signed the Declaration of Independence Roger Sherman: Signed the Declaration of Independence James Smith: Signed the Declaration of Independence Richard Stockton: Signed the Declaration of Independence Thomas Stone: Signed the Declaration of Independence George Taylor: Signed the Declaration of Independence Matthew Thornton: Signed the Declaration of Independence George Walton: Signed the Declaration of Independence William Whipple: Signed the Declaration of Independence William Williams: Signed the Declaration of Independence James Wilson: Signed the Declaration of Independence John Witherspoon: Signed the Declaration of Independence Oliver Wolcott: Signed the Declaration of Independence George Wythe: Signed the Declaration of Independence Charles Thomson: Attested the Declaration of Independence; Secretary of Continental Congress 1774-1789 (partially responsible for designing the Great Seal of the United States of America) Richard Bassett: Signed the Constitution Gunning Bedford, Jr.: Signed the Constitution John Blair: Signed the Constitution William Blount: Signed the Constitution David Brearly: Signed the Constitution Jacob Broom: Signed the Constitution Pierce Butler: Signed the Constitution Daniel Carroll: Signed the Constitution George Clymer: Signed the Constitution Jonathan Dayton: Signed the Constitution John Dickinson: Signed the Constitution William Few: Signed the Constitution Thomas Fitzsimons: Signed the Constitution Benjamin Franklin: Signed the Constitution Frances Fields: Signed the Constitution Nicholas Gilman: Signed the Constitution Nathaniel Gorham: Signed the Constitution Alexander Hamilton: Signed the Constitution Jared Ingersoll: Signed the Constitution Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer: Signed the Constitution William Samuel Johnson: Signed the Constitution Rufus King: Signed the Constitution John Langdon: Signed the Constitution William Livingston: Signed the Constitution James Madison: Signed the Constitution James McHenry: Signed the Constitution Thomas Mifflin: Signed the Constitution Gouverneur Morris: Signed the Constitution Robert Morris: Signed the Constitution William Paterson: Signed the Constitution Charles Cotesworth Pinckney: Signed the Constitution Charles Pinckney: Signed the Constitution George Read: Signed the Constitution John Rutledge: Signed the Constitution Roger Sherman: Signed the Constitution Richard Dobbs Spaight: Signed the Constitution George Washington: Signed the Constitution (Convention President) Hugh Williamson: Signed the Constitution James Wilson: Signed the Constitution William Jackson: Signed the Constitution (Convention Secretary) William Richardson Davie: Constitution Convention but didn't stay to sign Oliver Ellsworth: Constitution Convention but didn't stay to sign William Houstoun: Constitution Convention but didn't stay to sign John Lansing, Jr.: Constitution Convention but didn't stay to sign Alexander Martin: Constitution Convention but didn't stay to sign Luther Martin: Constitution Convention but didn't stay to sign James McClurg: Constitution Convention but didn't stay to sign John Francis Mercer: Constitution Convention but didn't stay to sign William Pierce: Constitution Convention but didn't stay to sign Caleb Strong: Constitution Convention but didn't stay to sign George Wythe: Constitution Convention but didn't stay to sign Robert Yates: Constitution Convention but didn't stay to sign George Mason: Refused to sign the Constitution Edmund Randolph: Refused to sign the Constitution Elbridge Gerry: Refused to sign the Constitution Ethan Allen: Other Founders Egbert Benson: Other Founders Richard Bland: Other Founders George Clinton: Other Founders Patrick Henry: Other Founders John Jay: Other Founders Henry Knox: Other Founders Henry Lee III: Other Founders Thomas Sim Lee: Other Founders Robert R. Livingston: Other Founders John Marshall: the fourth Chief Justice of the United States. Philip Mazzei: Other Founders James Monroe: Continental Congressman and fifth President of the United States, the last of the "Republican Generation" James Otis, Jr: Other Founders Thomas Paine: who went on to champion the French Revolution in his Rights of Man. He was elected to the National Convention and helped to write the constitution of France. Peyton Randolph: President of the First Continental Congress Dr.William Rickman: first Director of Hospitals of the Continental Army Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette French Major General: originally a volunteer, who was vital for the correspondence to and persuasion of France to support the Revolution Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben: the German-Prussian General who reorganized the Continental Army and guided it to victory : Other Founders |
