<P> The states had originally appointed seventy representatives to the Convention, but a number of the appointees did not accept or could not attend, leaving fifty - five delegates who would ultimately craft the Constitution . </P> <P> Almost all of the fifty - five delegates had taken part in the Revolution, with at least twenty - nine having served in the Continental forces, most in positions of command . All but two or three had served in colonial or state government during their careers . The vast majority (about 75%) of the delegates were or had been members of the Confederation Congress, and many had been members of the Continental Congress during the Revolution . Several had been state governors . Just two delegates, Roger Sherman and Robert Morris, would be signatories to all three of the nation's founding documents: the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution . </P> <P> More than half of the delegates had trained as lawyers (several had even been judges), although only about a quarter had practiced law as their principal means of business . There were also merchants, manufacturers, shippers, land speculators, bankers or financiers, two or three physicians, a minister, and several small farmers . Of the twenty - five who owned slaves, sixteen depended on slave labor to run the plantations or other businesses that formed the mainstay of their income . Most of the delegates were landowners with substantial holdings, and most, with the possible exception of Roger Sherman and William Few, were very comfortably wealthy . George Washington and Robert Morris were among the wealthiest men in the entire country . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> <P> Connecticut </P> <Ul> <Li> Oliver Ellsworth * </Li> <Li> William Samuel Johnson </Li> <Li> Roger Sherman </Li> </Ul> <P> Delaware </P> <Ul> <Li> Richard Bassett </Li> <Li> Gunning Bedford, Jr . </Li> <Li> Jacob Broom </Li> <Li> John Dickinson </Li> <Li> George Read </Li> </Ul> <P> Georgia </P> <Ul> <Li> Abraham Baldwin </Li> <Li> William Few </Li> <Li> William Houstoun * </Li> <Li> William Pierce * </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> <P> Maryland </P> <Ul> <Li> Daniel Carroll </Li> <Li> Luther Martin * </Li> <Li> James McHenry </Li> <Li> John Francis Mercer * </Li> <Li> Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer </Li> </Ul> <P> Massachusetts </P> <Ul> <Li> Elbridge Gerry * </Li> <Li> Nathaniel Gorham </Li> <Li> Rufus King </Li> <Li> Caleb Strong * </Li> </Ul> <P> New Hampshire </P> <Ul> <Li> Nicholas Gilman </Li> <Li> John Langdon </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> <P> New Jersey </P> <Ul> <Li> David Brearley </Li> <Li> Jonathan Dayton </Li> <Li> William Houston * </Li> <Li> William Livingston </Li> <Li> William Paterson </Li> </Ul> <P> New York </P> <Ul> <Li> Alexander Hamilton </Li> <Li> John Lansing, Jr. * </Li> <Li> Robert Yates * </Li> </Ul> <P> North Carolina </P> <Ul> <Li> William Blount </Li> <Li> William Richardson Davie * </Li> <Li> Alexander Martin * </Li> <Li> Richard Dobbs Spaight </Li> <Li> Hugh Williamson </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> <P> Pennsylvania </P> <Ul> <Li> George Clymer </Li> <Li> Thomas Fitzsimons </Li> <Li> Benjamin Franklin </Li> <Li> Jared Ingersoll </Li> <Li> Thomas Mifflin </Li> <Li> Gouverneur Morris </Li> <Li> Robert Morris </Li> <Li> James Wilson </Li> </Ul> <P> South Carolina </P> <Ul> <Li> Pierce Butler </Li> <Li> Charles Cotesworth Pinckney </Li> <Li> Charles Pinckney </Li> <Li> John Rutledge </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> <P> Virginia </P> <Ul> <Li> John Blair </Li> <Li> James Madison </Li> <Li> George Mason * </Li> <Li> James McClurg * </Li> <Li> Edmund Randolph * </Li> <Li> George Washington </Li> <Li> George Wythe * </Li> </Ul> <P> Rhode Island Rhode Island did not send delegates to the Convention . </P> </Td> </Tr> </Table>

What major agreement did the constitutional convention reach after only five days of meetings