Occupation Delegate to the Continental Congress

writer

scientist

inventor

publisher

printer

journalist

diplomat

politician

President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania (1785-1788)

United States Ambassador to France (1778-1785)

United States Ambassador to Sweden (1782-1783)

United States Postmaster General (1775-1776)

Member of the Pennsylvania Assembly (1751-1757)

Member of the Pennsylvania Assembly (1762-1764)

Delegate to the United States Constitutional Convention (Pennsylvania)

Chief Justice of the United States (1789-1795)

American Plenipotentiary-Extraordinary to Great Britain for the negotiation of a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation (1794)

Governor of New York (1795-1801 | Federalist)

lawyer

judge

politician

diplomat

public official

United States Ambassador to Spain (1779-1782)

President of the United States Continental Congress (1778-1779)

United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1784-1790)

lawyer

planter

politician

Governor of Virginia (1776-1779)

Governor of Virginia (1784-1786)

Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses

military officer (United States Army)

served in the General Assembly

Governor of Virginia (1791-1794)

politician

U.S. Congressman (1799-1801)

politician

Member of the New York State Assembly (1777-1778)

lawyer

merchant

Delegate to the United States Constitutional Convention (Pennsylvania)

U.S. Senator (New York | 1800-1803 | Federalist)

United States Ambassador to France (1792-1794)

merchant

brewer

politician

Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1789-1794 | Jeffersonian Republican)

Governor of Massachusetts (1794-1797 | Jeffersonian Republican)

politician

lawyer

judge

public official

merchant

Member of the New Jersey Provincial Council

Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Pennsylvania (1789-1791)

politician

Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses (1758-1775)

Member of the Virginia House of Delegates

U.S. Senator (Virginia | 1789-1792 | Anti-Administration)

lawyer

politician

newspaper publisher

military officer (New Jersey militia)

Governor of New Jersey (1776-1790)

Delegate to the United States Constitutional Convention (New Jersey)

politician

judge

Judge of the Baltimore Criminal Court (1788-1796)

Chief Judge of the General Court of Maryland (1791-1796)

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1796-1811)

Member of the Maryland General Assembly (1764-1783)

merchant

politician

diplomat

U.S. Congressman (Massachusetts | 1789-1793 | Anti-Administration)

Governor of Massachusetts (1810-1812 | Jeffersonian Republican)

Vice President of the United States (1813-1814 | Jeffersonian Republican)

Delegate to the United States Constitutional Convention (Massachusetts)

politician

planter

Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (1787-1789)

Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (1792-1796)

Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (1806-1806)

Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (1810-1814)

Member of the South Carolina Senate (1779-1782)

Member of the Congress of the Confederation (1784-1787)

U.S. Senator (1798-1801)

United States Ambassador to Spain (1802-1804)

U.S. Congressman (1819-1821)

Governor of South Carolina (1789-1792)

Governor of South Carolina (1796-1798)

Governor of South Carolina (1806-1808)

diplomat

Delegate to the United States Constitutional Convention (South Carolina)

lawyer

politician

Governor of Delaware (1778-1781 | then called President)

politician

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses (1761-1771)

Virginia House of Delegates member (1776-1783)

Virginia Council of State member (1786-1791)

Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses (1775-1776)

Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1776-1783)

Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1785-1786)

Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1794)

Member of the Virginia Council of State (1794-1797)

merchant

businessperson

politician

Governor of Massachusetts (1787-1793)

Governor of Massachusetts (1780-1785)

President of the Continental Congress (1775-1777)

merchant

politician

United States Secretary of the Naval Affairs Committee (1776-1779)