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The Educational Background of the Framers

by Gordon Lloyd and Jeff Sammon

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Harvard  

Harvard

Elbridge Gerry (1762)
Rufus King (1777)
William Samuel Johnson (M.A. 1747)
Caleb Strong (1774)
George Washington (Honorary LLD 1776)

    
   

Yale

Abraham Baldwin (1772)
Jared Ingersoll (1766)
William Samuel Johnson (1744)
William Livingston (1741)
Roger Sherman (Honorary MA 1768)
William Livingston (Honorary LLD 1788)

   Yale
Princeton  

College of New Jersey
(Princeton)

Gunning Bedford, Jr. (1771)
William R. Davie (1776)
Jonathan Dayton (1776)
Oliver Ellsworth (1766)
William C. Houston
(1768, M.A. 1771)
James Madison Jr. (1771)
Alexander Martin (1756, M.A. 1759)
Luther Martin (1766)
William Paterson (1763)
David Brearly (Honorary M.A. 1781)
John Dickinson (Honorary LLD)



    
   

Middle Temple (London)

John Dickinson (1757)
John Rutledge (1760)
John Blair (Juris Doctoris)
Jared Ingersoll (Juris Doctoris 1776)

   Middle Temple
William and Mary  

College of William and Mary

John Blair
James McClurg (1762)
John F. Mercer (1775)
William L. Pierce (attended)
Edmund J. Randolph (attended)



    
   

King's College (Columbia)

Gouverneur Morris (1768, M.A. 1771)
Alexander Hamilton (attended)

   King's College

College of Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania)

Thomas Mifflin (1760)
Hugh Williamson (1757, M.A. 1760)
James Wilson (Honorary M.A. 1766)

Dartmouth

John Langdon (Honorary LLD 1805)

Newark Academy

James McHenry (1772)

Inner Temple (London)

William Houstoun (1776)

Oxford (England)

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1764)

St. Andrews (Scotland)

James Wilson

Glasgow (Scotland)

Richard Dobbs Spaight (1778)

Edinburgh (Scotland)

James McClurg (M.D. 1770)

College of Saint Omer (Netherlands)

Daniel Carroll (1747)

Tutor or Professor

Abraham Baldwin
William C. Houston
James McClurg
Hugh Williamson
James Wilson
George Wythe

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