William Samuel Johnson

Connecticut.

William Samuel Johnson.

Roger Sherman.

New York.

After somewhere near six hours, the men in the room stood up and went to dinner.

Dr. William Samuel Johnson of Connecticut kept a diary that summer, and was fully detailed on all but two days of the entire convention.

For June 18th, the business was simply, In Convention, Hamilton.

The next morning, June 19th, the convention took up.

They were not theorists, but practical men, rich in political experience and endowed with deep insight into the springs of human action.

Three of them had served in the Stamp Act Congress—Dickinson of Delaware, William Samuel Johnson of Connecticut, and John Rutledge of South Carolina.

Eight had been signers of the Declaration of Independence—Reed of Delaware, Sherman of Connecticut, Wythe of Virginia, Jerry of Massachusetts, Franklin, Robert Morris, George Clymer, and James Wilson of Pennsylvania— all but twelve had at some time served in the continental congress and eighteen were members of that body in the spring of seventeen eighty seven washington hamilton mifflin and charles pinckney had been officers in the revolutionary army seven of the delegates had gained political experience as governors of states the convention as a whole according to historian hildreth represented in a marked manner the talent intelligence and especially the conservative sentiment of the country

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Connecticut's table sat three men, and Major Pierce caught all three.

Dr. William Samuel Johnson, about 60, one of the most learned men in America, a man who had once argued Connecticut's land claims before the British House of Commons and, in Major Pierce's words, discharged the office with so much dignity that it made his reputation for life.

He engages with the hearts of men by the sweetness of his temper and that affectionate style of address which he accosts with his acquaintance.

Oliver Ellsworth, 42, a judge of Connecticut's Supreme Court, a gentleman of clear and deep and copious understanding and a dangerous man to argue against.

They were not theorists, but practical men, rich in political experience and endowed with deep insight into the springs of human action.

Three of them had served in the Stamp Act Congress—Dickinson of Delaware, William Samuel Johnson of Connecticut, and John Rutledge of South Carolina.

Eight had been signers of the Declaration of Independence—Reed of Delaware, Sherman of Connecticut, Wythe of Virginia, Jerry of Massachusetts, Franklin, Robert Morris, George Clymer, and James Wilson of Pennsylvania— all but twelve had at some time served in the continental congress and eighteen were members of that body in the spring of seventeen eighty seven washington hamilton mifflin and charles pinckney had been officers in the revolutionary army seven of the delegates had gained political experience as governors of states the convention as a whole according to historian hildreth represented in a marked manner the talent intelligence and especially the conservative sentiment of the country

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Massachusetts, Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King.

Connecticut, William Samuel Johnson, Roger Sherman.

New York, Alexander Hamilton.

New Jersey, William Livingston, David Brearley, William Patterson, Jonah Dayton.