Age of the Founding Fathers

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The Delegates by Age

Delegates in their 20s	State	Life	Age
Jonathon Dayton	NJ	1760 – 1824	26
John F. Mercer	MD	1759 – 1821	28
Richard Dobbs Spaight	NC	1758 – 1802	29
Charles Pinckney	SC	1757 – 1824	29
Delegates in their 30s
William R. Davie	NC	1756 – 1804	30
Alexander Hamilton	NY	1757 – 1804	30
Nicholas Gilman	NH	1755 – 1814	32
William Houstoun	GA	1755 – 1813	32
Rufus King	MA	1755 – 1827	32
John Lansing, Jr.	NY	1754 – 1829	32
Abraham Baldwin	GA	1754 – 1807	33
Edmund J. Randolph	VA	1753 – 1813	34
Gouverneur Morris	PA	1752 – 1816	35
Jacob Broom	DE	1752 – 1810	35
James Madison, Jr.	VA	1751 – 1836	36
Jared Ingersoll	PA	1749 – 1822	37
William Few	GA	1748 – 1828	39
Luther Martin	MD	1748 – 1826	39
Delegates in their 40s
Gunning Bedford, Jr.	DE	1747 – 1812	40
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney	SC	1746 – 1825	41
William C. Houston	NJ	1746 – 1788	41
James McClurg	VA	1746 – 1823	41
William Paterson	NJ	1745 – 1815	41
Richard Bassett	DE	1745 – 1815	42
Oliver Ellsworth	CT	1745 – 1807	42
David Brearly	NJ	1745 – 1790	42
Caleb Strong	MA	1745 – 1819	42
Pierce Butler	SC	1744 – 1822	43
William Blount	NC	1744 – 1800	43
Elbridge Gerry	MA	1744 – 1814	43
Thomas Mifflin	PA	1744 – 1800	43
James McHenry	MD	1743 – 1816	44
James Wilson	PA	1742 – 1798	45
John Langdon	NH	1741 – 1811	46
Thomas Fitzsimons	PA	1741 – 1811	46
Alexander Martin	NC	1740 – 1807	47
William L. Pierce	GA	1740 – 1789	47
George Clymer	PA	1739 – 1813	48
John Rutledge	SC	1739 – 1800	48
Nathaniel Gorham	MA	1738 – 1796	49
Robert Yates	NY	1738 – 1801	49
Delegates in their 50s and older
Hugh Williamson	NC	1735 – 1819	52
Robert Morris	PA	1734 – 1806	53
George Read	DE	1733 – 1798	53
John Blair	VA	1732 – 1800	55
John Dickinson	DE	1732 – 1808	55
George Washington	VA	1732 – 1799	55
Daniel Carroll	MD	1730 – 1796	57
William Samuel Johnson	CT	1727 – 1819	59
George Wythe	VA	1726 – 1806	61
George Mason	VA	1725 – 1792	62
William Livingston	NJ	1723 – 1790	63
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer	MD	1723 – 1790	64
Roger Sherman	CT	1721 – 1793	66
Benjamin Franklin	PA	1706 – 1790	81