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Born November 8, 1732 • Talbot • Maryland
Died February 14, 1808 (aged 75) • Wilmington • Delaware
Role In Constitutional Convention

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Charles Willson Peale: Portrait of John Dickinson
John Dickinson's draft of the Articles of Confederation
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Benjamin Franklin
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George Washington
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Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton
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Asher B. Durand: portrait of James Madison
James Madison
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Pinckney, Charles
Charles Pinckney
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Gouverneur Morris.
Gouverneur Morris
American statesman
John Rutledge
John Rutledge
American chief justice
James Wilson
James Wilson
United States statesman
Roger Sherman, oil on canvas by Ralph Earl, c. 1775; in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. 164.1 × 126 cm.
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William Paterson
William Paterson
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Rufus King
Rufus King
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William Blount
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Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
American statesman
William Livingston, etching by A. Rosenthal, 1888, after a painting by an unknown artist
William Livingston
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Wythe, George
George Wythe
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
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English-American writer Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
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Samuel Adams
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Patrick Henry
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Oliver Ellsworth
Oliver Ellsworth
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