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The
Constitution Mural, Painted by:
Barry Faulkner in 1936
From
left to right: (Front Row) Edm=
und
Randolph, Nathaniel Gorham, John Dickinson, John Rutledge, James Wilson, Oliver Ellsworth, Charles Pinckney,
James Madison, Elbridge Gerry, William Samuel Johnson, George Mason, George Washington,
Benjamin Franklin, Rufus King, William Paterson, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Gouverneur
Morris,
(B=
ack
Row) William R. Davie, John Langdon, Luther Martin, Roger Sherman,
Gu=
nning
Bedford, Jr., and Abraham Baldwin.
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On
September 17, 1787 the Constitutional Convention came to a close in the
Assembly Room of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
There were seventy individ=
uals
chosen to attend the meetings with the initial purpose of amending the Articles of Confederation. Rhode I=
sland
opted to not send any delegates. Fifty-five
men attended most of the meetings, there were never more than 46 present a=
t any one time, and ultimately only thirty-nine
actually signed the Constitution. While offering incredible contributions George Mason =
of
Virginia, Edmund Randolph of Virginia,
and Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts refused to sign the final document because of basic philosophical differences. Mai=
nly,
they were fearful of an all-powerful government and wanted a bill of rights added to
protect the rights of the people.=
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The following is a list of those individuals who
signed the Constitution followed by a <=
span
style=3D'font-size:89%'>brief bit of information concerning what happen=
ed to
each person after 1787.
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b>William
S. Johnson (1727-1819)
He
became the president of Columbia College (formerly know Roger Sherman (1721-1793)
He campaigned strongly for the
ratification of the Constitution and served as a United
States Representative (1789-1791) and Senator (1791-1793) unt=
il
his death in 1793 at the age of 72.
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Richard Bassett (1745-1815)
He was appointed as a United Stat=
es
Senator from Delaware (1789-1793), and was instrumental =
in
the organization of the Judiciary of the United States. He
favored moving the nation's capital from New York C=
ity
to Washington, D.C., and was opposed to Alexander
Hamilton's plan of the assumption of state debts by the feder=
al
government. After his retirement from the Senate, he
devoted the rest of his life to public affairs in Delaware. He=
was
elected governor of Delaware (1799-1801).
=
Gunning
Bedford, Jr. (1747-1812)
President
Washington appointed him the first United States ![3DDelaware](3D"slide0004_image013.gif")
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Jacob
Broom (1752-1810)
Broom
became the first postmaster of Delaware from 1790-John Dickinson (1732-1808)
He lived for twenty years after =
the
official ratification of the Constitution but held no
public offices. He spent much of his time writing about
politics, and criticized the administration of =
President
John Adams. He died in 1808 at the age of 75. Thomas <=
b>Jefferson
wrote: "A more estimable man or truer patriot could not =
have
left us ... It has been a great comfort to me to have retained =
his
friendship to the last moment of his life."
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Broom’s Headstone