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Biographies Signers of Declaration of Independence | Signers of the Constitution Delegates to the Constitutional Convention who did not sign.
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39 delegates (of 55) who signed the Constitution.
Rhode Island did not send any Delegates. Attended Convention: Did Not Sign Constitution
16 Delegates to the Convention who did not sign Constitution.
Note: States with at least one delegate present had one vote each. The Convention had been called by Congress, so the delegates that went home were actually abstaining from voting within their state's caucuses. Therefore, the final vote to approve the draft and send it to Congress was 12-0. Congress then sent it to the state legislatures for ratification (or rejection). Ratification required 9 states. The Constitution went into effect with ratification by New Hampshire on June 21, 1788, leaving New York, North Carolina, Virginia and Rhode Island out in the cold. But Virginia got on board June 25 and New York a month later. However, North Carolina delayed 17 months and Rhode Island nearly two years before they came in from the cold.
Notes on the Constitutional Convention:
Biographies of the Signers of D.O.I. from the 1829 book, Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence by the Rev. Charles A. Goodrich [Some editing has been done including an effort to modernize spelling.]
Sources of others indicated on respective pages. |
Declaration of Independence by Benson J. Lossing -- |
The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis -- |
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