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In 1777 _________ became Connecticut's state attorney for Hartford County.
Oliver Ellsworth, Connecticut
Which state was John Blair from?
Virginia
His last public act was signing a memorial to Congress, this recomended dissolution of the slavery system.
Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania
Name the 2 Framers from Maryland who did not sign the Constitution.
Luther Martin and John F. Mercer
Which state did not send any delegates to the Constitutional Convention?
Rhode Island
What state was Jacob Broom from?
Delaware
At the U.S. Constitutional Convention, ________ attended diligently, but made no speeches, served on no committees, and cast no critical votes.
Richard Bassett, Delaware
Who worked for 4 years in a Philadelphia countinghouse?
Thomas Mifflin, Pennsylvania
When and where was Caleb Strong born?
January 9, 1745 in Northampton, MA
At age 32, _______ was one of the most important youthful delegates at Philadelphia.
Rufus King
From which states did every Framer sign the Constitution?
Delaware, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania
Who was crown attorney general (1763-74) for the Three Lower Counties (present Delaware)?
George Read, Delaware
Which state had the highest average of delegates who signed the constitution?
Virginia
From South Carolina, whose role in the Constitutional Convention is controversial?
Charles Pinckney
Name the three delegates from New York.
Alexander Hamilton, John Lansing, Jr., and Robert Yates
Out of the 55 delegates, how many people actually signed the constitution?
39
At age 44, in 1802, _______ was struck down in a duel at New Bern with a political rival.
Richard Dobbs Spaight, Sr., North Carolina
________ wrote his first major state paper, Extracts from the Virginia Charters, with Some Remarks upon Them.
George Mason, Virginia
Though _________ introduced the highly centralized Virginia Plan, he wavered between the Federalist and Antifederalist POV.
Edmund Randolph, Virginia
Who died at age 66 or 67 at Annapolis in 1790?
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Maryland
________ was born in Connecticut, but was a delegate for Pennyslvania.
Jared Ingersoll
After graduating from Harvard in 1762, ______ joined his father and two brothers in the family business, exporting dried codfish to Barbados and Spain.
Elbridge Gerry, Massachusetts
Which state had the least amount of delegates at the Constitutional Convention?
New Hampshire
________ achieved the rank of captain at age 19 serving under his father; he was a prisoner of the British for a time and served in the Battle of Yorktown, Virginia.
Jonathan Dayton, New Jersey
________ had studied law in Princeton under Richard Stockton, (he later signed the Declaration of Independence).
William Paterson, New Jersey