Delegates’ Speeches, Motions, and Committee Assignments in the Constitutional Convention

The following table lists the speeches, motions, and committee assignments for the delegates to the Constitutional Convention. This table was compiled by John P. Kaminski and Michael E. Stevens.

wdt_ID	Delegate	State	Speeches	Motions	Committees
1	James Wilson	Pennsylvania	172	49	2
2	Gouverneur Morris	Pennsylvania	171	78	4
3	James Madison	Virginia	167	72	4
4	Roger Sherman	Connecticut	131	46	4
5	George Mason	Virginia	127	36	4
6	Elbridge Gerry	Massachusetts	113	55	1
7	Edmund Randolph	Virginia	79	44	3
8	Rufus King	Massachusetts	78	22	6
9	Hugh Williamson	North Carolina	77	35	5
10	Charles Pinckney	South Carolina	74	58	1
11	Oliver Ellsworth	Connecticut	72	28	2
12	Nathaniel Gorham	Massachusetts	69	12	4
13	John Rutledge	South Carolina	52	38	5
14	Pierce Butler	South Carolina	52	23	2
15	John Dickinson	Delaware	47	21	4
16	Luther Martin	Maryland	38	23	2
17	Charles Cotesworth Pinckney	South Carolina	34	20	2
18	Benjamin Franklin	Pennsylvania	27	13	2
19	George Read	Delaware	26	12	2
20	Alexander Hamilton	New York	25	11	2
21	John Langdon	New Hampshire	25	4	3
22	Daniel Carroll	Maryland	23	17	3
23	John Francis Mercer	Maryland	20	4	0
24	William Samuel Johnson	Connecticut	16	7	4
25	William Paterson	New Jersey	12	5	1
26	Jonathan Dayton	New Jersey	12	7	1
27	Gunning Bedford, Jr.	Delaware	10	3	1
28	Caleb Strong	Massachusetts	9	3	0
29	Abraham Baldwin	Georgia	8	2	4
30	George Clymer	Pennsylvania	7	2	2
31	David Brearley	New Jersey	6	4	2
32	Jacob Broom	Delaware	5	11	0
33	William R. Davie	North Carolina	5	2	1
34	James McHenry	Maryland	5	7	1
35	Thomas FitzSimons	Pennsylvania	5	2	1
36	Richard Dobbs Spaight	North Carolina	4	13	0
37	John Lansing, Jr.	New York	4	3	0
38	Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer	Maryland	4	2	0
39	George Wythe	Virginia	4	0	1
40	William Houstoun	Georgia	3	6	1
41	James McClurg	Virginia	3	2	0
42	William Pierce	Georgia	3	1	0
43	George Washington	Virginia	2	0	0
44	Jared Ingersoll	Pennsylvania	2	0	0
45	William Livingston	New Jersey	2	0	3
46	Robert Morris	Pennsylvania	1	2	0
47	William Blount	North Carolina	1	0	0
48	William Few	Georgia	0	0	1
49	Nicholas Gilman	New Hampshire	0	0	1
50	Alexander Martin	North Carolina	0	3	0
51	Thomas Mifflin	Pennsylvania	0	1	0
52	Robert Yates	New York	0	0	2
53	Richard Bassett	Delaware	0	0	0
54	William Churchill Houston	New Jersey	0	0	0
55	John Blair	Virginia	0	0	0
	Delegate	State	Speeches	Motions	Committees