Monday, November 5, 2018

Signers and age of signers of the US Constitution

Names and age of signers of the US Constitution

Signers of the Constitution were not "old white men". The average age was 44.

Thomas Lynch, Jr., 26*
Edward Rutledge, 26*
George Walton, 27* **
Thomas Heyward, Jr., 29*
Benjamin Rush, 30*
Elbridge Gerry, 31*
Thomas Jefferson, 33*
Thomas Stone, 33* **
William Hooper, 34*
Arthur Middleton, 34*
James Wilson, 34* **
Samuel Chase, 35*
William Paca, 35*
John Penn, 35*
George Clymer, 37*
Charles Cornwallis, 37
Thomas Nelson, Jr., 37*
Charles Carroll, 38*
Francis Hopkinson, 38*
Carter Braxton, 39*
John Hancock, 39*
John Adams, 40*
William Floyd, 41^
Button Gwinnett, 41* **
John Lamb, 41**
Francis Lightfoot Lee, 41*
Robert Morris, 42*
Thomas McKean, 42*
George Read, 42*
Samuel Huntington, 44*
Richard Henry Lee, 44*
Robert Treat Paine, 45*
Richard Stockton, 45*
William Williams, 45*
Josiah Bartlett, 46*
Joseph Hewes, 46*
George Ross, 46*
William Whipple, 46*
Caesar Rodney, 47*
William Ellery, 48*
Oliver Wolcott, 49*
Abraham Clark, 50*
Benjamin Harrison, 50*
Lewis Morris, 50*
George Wythe, 50* **
John Morton, 51* **
Lyman Hall, 52*
James Rivington, 52**
Samuel Adams, 53*
John Witherspoon, 53*
Roger Sherman, 55*
James Smith, 56*
Lewis Nicola, 59**
Philip Livingston, 60*
George Taylor, 60* **
Matthew Thornton, 62*
Francis Lewis, 63*
John Hart, 65* **
Stephen Hopkins, 69*
Benjamin Franklin, 70*

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