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The Educational Background of the Framers
by Gordon Lloyd and Jeff Sammon

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   Convention: Introduction to this Site | Introduction to the Convention | Four Act Drama |
       Day by Day Summary | Major Themes | Madison's Notes | Selected Correspondence

   Delegates: Age of Framers in 1787 | Educational Backgrounds | Continental Experiences |
       Delegates by State | Alphabetical List | Interactive Scene at the Signing of the Constitution |
       Interactive Map of Philadelphia | Entertainment of George Washington at the City Tavern

 

 

Harvard  
Harvard
Elbridge Gerry (1762)
Rufus King (1777)
William Samuel Johnson (M.A. 1747)
Caleb Strong (1774)
George Washington (Honorary LLD 1776)
   
   
Yale
Abraham Baldwin (1772)
Jared Ingersoll (1766)
William Samuel Johnson (1744)
William Livingston (1741)
Roger Sherman (Honorary MA 1768)
William Livingston (Honorary LLD 1788)
  Yale
Princeton  
College of New Jersey
(Princeton)
Daniel Brearly (attended)
Gunning Bedford, Jr. (1771)
William R. Davie (1776)
Jonathan Dayton (1776)
Oliver Ellsworth (1766)
William C. Houston
(1768, M.A. 1771)
James Madison Jr. (1771)
Alexander Martin (1756, M.A. 1759)
Luther Martin (1766)
William Paterson (1763)
Daniel Brearly (Honorary M.A. 1781)
John Dickinson (Honorary LLD)


    
   
Middle Temple (London)
John Dickinson (1757)
John Rutledge (1760)
John Blair (Juris Doctoris)
Jared Ingersoll (Juris Doctoris 1776)
   Middle Temple
William and Mary  
College of William and Mary
John Blair
James McClurg (1762)
John F. Mercer (1775)
William L. Pierce (attended)
Edmund J. Randolph (attended)


    
   
King's College (Columbia)
Gouverneur Morris (1768, M.A. 1771)
Alexander Hamilton (attended)
   King's College


College of Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania)
Thomas Mifflin (1760)
Hugh Williamson (1757, M.A. 1760)
James Wilson (Honorary M.A. 1766)


Dartmouth
John Langdon (Honorary LLD 1805)


Newark Academy
James McHenry (1772)


Inner Temple (London)
William Houstoun (1776)


Oxford (England)
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1764)


St. Andrews (Scotland)
James Wilson


Glasgow (Scotland)
Richard Dobbs Spaight (1778)


Edinburgh (Scotland)
James McClurg (M.D. 1770)


College of Saint Omer (Netherlands)
Daniel Carroll (1747)


Tutor or Professor
Abraham Baldwin
William C. Houston
James McClurg
Hugh Williamson
James Wilson
George Wythe


 

         
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