The Educational Background of the Framers

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		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)
		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)
		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)

College of Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania)

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

Dartmouth

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John Langdon (Honorary LLD 1805)

Newark Academy

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James McHenry (1772)

Inner Temple (London)

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William Houstoun (1776)

Oxford (England)

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Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1764)

St. Andrews (Scotland)

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James Wilson

Glasgow (Scotland)

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Richard Dobbs Spaight (1778)

Edinburgh (Scotland)

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James McClurg (M.D. 1770)

College of Saint Omer (Netherlands)

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Daniel Carroll (1747)

Tutor or Professor

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