Founding Fathers Alexander Martin State | North Carolina Religion | Presbyterian Founding Documents | United States Constitution Alexander Martin (1740 - 1807) was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, representing the state of North Carolina.[1] ## Contents * 1 Early life * 2 Career * 3 Passing * 4 References ## Early life[edit] He was born in 1740 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and received a classical education. He graduated from Princeton College in 1750 after studying law, and was admitted soon after to the bar, becoming an attorney in North Carolina.[2] ## Career[edit] In 1772 he was a member of the Colonial Assembly, and served in the Revolutionary War as colonel of a North Carolina regiment of the line and participated in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown He was a member of the State Senate 1779-1782,1785-1787, and 1788; was governor of North Carolina 1782-1785 and 1789-1792 In 1787 he was a delegate to the convention to adopt the Federal Constitution with Richard Dobbs Spaight, William Richardson Davie, William Blount, and Hugh Williamson. He later attempted to join the Hillsborough Constitutional Convention, which is where North Carolina considered the ratification of the Constitution. His attempt to join was unsuccessful which meant that Alexander Martin was the only delegate of the Constitutional Convention who did not play a role in state ratification.[3] He was a United States senator from North Carolina, serving from December 2, 1793, to March 3, 1799 ## Passing[edit] Martin died at Danbury, North Carolina, November, 1807. ## References[edit] 1. ↑ Alexander Martin 2. ↑ The Political Register and Congressional Directory: A Statistical Record of the Federal Officials, Legislative, Executive, and Judicial, of the United States of America, 1776-1878 3. ↑ The Creators of the Constitution v • d • e Constitutional Convention Delegates to the Constitutional Convention by State, those who signed the Constitution are indicated by italic. Massachusetts| Elbridge Gerry • Nathaniel Gorham • Rufus King • Caleb Strong Reproduction of painting of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and others signing the U.S. Constitution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Henry Hintermeister. New Hampshire| Nicholas Gilman • John Langdon Connecticut| Oliver Ellsworth • William Samuel Johnson • Roger Sherman New York| Alexander Hamilton • John Lansing, Jr. • Robert Yates New Jersey| David Brearley • Jonathan Dayton • William Houston • William Livingston • William Paterson Pennsylvania| George Clymer • Thomas Fitzsimons • Benjamin Franklin • Jared Ingersoll • Thomas Mifflin • Gouverneur Morris • Robert Morris • James Wilson Delaware| Richard Bassett • Gunning Bedford, Jr. • Jacob Broom • John Dickinson • George Read Maryland| Daniel Carroll • Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer • Luther Martin • James McHenry • John Francis Mercer Virginia| John Blair Jr. • James Madison • George Mason • James McClurg • Edmund Randolph • George Washington • George Wythe North Carolina| William Blount • William Richardson Davie • Alexander Martin • Richard Dobbs Spaight • Hugh Williamson South Carolina| Pierce Butler • Charles Cotesworth Pinckney • Charles Pinckney • John Rutledge Georgia| William Few • Abraham Baldwin • William Houstoun • William Pierce Convention Secretary| William Jackson The legislature of Rhode Island declined to send delegates to the Convention.