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Home > Constitutional Convention > Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States by Howard Chandler Christy
by Howard Chandler Christy
Click on a delegate for further biographical information. Signed: l.r. Howard Chandler Christy, Sail Loft, U.S. Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., April 1940 (This painting hangs in the east stairway in the House wing of the United States Capitol. More information about the painting...)
Notes: Only 39 of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention are pictured in the Christy painting.
Not included are the 3 delegates who did not sign the Constitution:
Edmund J. Randolph (Virginia),
George Mason (Virginia), and
Elbridge Gerry (Massachusetts).
Also not included are the 13 delegates who left the convention:
Oliver Ellsworth (Connecticut),
William Houston (Georgia),
William L. Pierce (Georgia),
Luther Martin (Maryland),
John F. Mercer (Maryland),
Caleb Strong (Massachusetts),
William C. Houston (New Jersey),
John Lansing, Jr. (New York),
Robert Yates (New York),
William R. Davie (North Carolina),
Alexander Martin (North Carolina),
James McClurg (Virginia), and
George Wythe (Virginia).
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