Pennsylvania trusted most to Benjamin Franklin, but she sent the financier of the Revolution, Robert Morris, and Gouverneur Morris; and with them went Thomas Mifflin, George Clymer, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Jared Ingersoll, James Wilson--all conspicuous public men at the time, although their fame is bedraggled or quite faded now.

Wilson ranked as the first lawyer of the group.

Of the five from little Delaware sturdy John Dickinson, a man who thought, was no negligible quantity.
Connecticut also had as spokesmen two strong individualities--Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth.

Maryland spoke through James McHenry and Daniel Carroll and three others of greater obscurity.

Virginia had George Washington, President of the Convention, and James Madison, active, resourceful, and really accomplishing; and in addition to these two: Edmund Randolph, the Governor; George Mason, Washington's hard-headed and discreet lawyer friend; John Blair, George Wythe, and James McClurg.