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