From South Carolina went three unusual orators, John Rutledge, C.C.Pinckney and Charles Pinckney, and Pierce Butler.
Georgia named four mediocre but useful men.
In this gathering of fifty-five persons, the proportion between those who were preeminent for common sense and those who were remarkable for special knowledge and talents was very fairly kept.

Most of them had had experience in dealing with men either in local government offices or in the army.

Socially, they came almost without exception from respectable if not aristocratic families.

Of the fifty-five, twenty-nine were university or college bred, their universities comprising Oxford, Glasgow, and Edinburgh besides the American Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia.

The two foremost members, Washington and Franklin, were not college bred.
Among the fifty-five we do not find John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, who, as I have said, were in Europe on official business.