Founding Fathers

Nathan Hale

Who was martyred for spying against the British?

Thomas Jefferson

Who was our nation's first Secretary of State?

John Quincy Adams

Who was the Secretary of State under James Monroe?

Henry Knox

Who was the first Secretary of War?

George Mason

Anti-Federalist that refused to sign the Constitution without a Bill of Rights.

James Madison

Considered the Father of the Constitution

Benjamin Franklin

First Postmaster General of the united States

Edmund Randolph

Governor of Virginia that refused to sign the Constitution.

Richard Henry Lee

He first proposed the writing of the Declaration of Independence.

Patrick Henry

One of the leading Anti-Federalist that said I smell a rat.

James Wilson

Pennsylvania lawyer that signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for the united States.

Roger Sherman

Proposed the Great Compromise that satisfied both the large and the small states.

James Monroe

Ran against James Madison for Congress in 1788

Joseph Warren

The Patriot leader that was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

John Hancock

The President of the Second Continental Congress

George Washington

The Presiding Officer at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.

Thomas Paine

The author of Common Sense

John Jay

The first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Alexander Hamilton

The first Secretary of the Treasury

John Adams

The first Vice President of the United States

Samuel Adams

The leader of the Sons of Liberty

John Marshall

Was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for over 30 years.

Aaron Burr

Was the Vice President under Thomas Jefferson