The oldest was Benjamin Franklin at 70 years old. Only a handful signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; they include: Benjamin Franklin, George Read, Roger Sherman ...

The Constitution of the United States (US) was signed by 39 of the 55 delegates on September 17, 1787. It went into effect on March 4, 1789, after it had been ratified by conventions in nine states.

This practice began early in the republic. Elbridge Gerry, one of the signers of the Constitution, created such an oddly-shaped district in his Massachusetts region that it was dubbed a ...

Hoping to gain the support of critics and create a sense of common accord, Franklin then proposed, and the Convention agreed, that the Constitution be signed by the delegates as individual ...