This page needs to be proofread.
Pennsylvania (continued) | George Clymer |
---|---|
Jared Ingersoll | |
Thomas Fitzsimons | |
James Wilson | |
Gouverneur Morris | |
Benjamin Franklin | |
Delaware | George Read |
Gunning Bedford, Junior | |
John Dickinson | |
Richard Bassett | |
Jacob Broom | |
Maryland | James McHenry |
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer | |
Daniel Carroll | |
John Francis Mercer | |
Luther Martin | |
[Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Gabriel Duvall, Robert Hanson Harrison, Thomas Sim Lee, and Thomas Stone were elected but declined to serve.] | |
Virginia | George Washington |
Edmund Randolph | |
John Blair | |
James Madison, Junior | |
George Mason | |
George Wythe | |
James McClurg | |
[Patrick Henry,[1] Richard Henry Lee, and Thomas Nelson were elected but declined to serve.] |
- ↑ “There was a passage at arms between the Rev. John Blair Smith, president of Hampden-Sydney College in Prince Edward county, and Patrick Henry, who represented that county in the Convention. Henry had inveighed with great severity against the Constitution, and was responded to by Dr. Smith, who pressed the question upon Henry, why he had not taken his seat in the Convention and lent his aid in making a good Constitution, instead of staying at home and abusing the work of his patriotic compeers? Henry, with that magical power of acting in which he excelled all his contemporaries, and which before a popular assembly was irresistible, replied: ‘I smelt a Rat.’” (H.B. Grigsby, History of the Virginia Federal Convention of 1788, I, 32.)