Hugh Williamson was an American Founding Father, physician, and politician. He is best known as a signatory to the U.S. Constitution and for representing North Carolina at the Constitutional Convention.
Hugh Williamson
Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States
Key, Hugh Williamson, No 19
Williamson's grave at Trinity Church Cemetery
Constitutional Convention (United States)
The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787. Although the convention was intended to revise the league of states and first system of government under the Articles of Confederation, the intention from the outset of many of its proponents, chief among them James Madison of Virginia and Alexander Hamilton of New York, was to create a new frame of government rather than fix the existing one. The delegates elected George Washington of Virginia, former commanding general of the Continental Army in the late American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) and proponent of a stronger national government, to become President of the convention. The result of the convention was the creation of the Constitution of the United States, placing the Convention among the most significant events in American history.
States and territories of the United States at the time of the Constitutional Convention
Independence Hall's Assembly Room
James Madison, author of the Virginia Plan
Roger Sherman of Connecticut