Penn Signers of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence

University of Pennsylvania Signers of the Declaration of Independence:
1.	Benjamin Franklin	(Pa.)	Founder; Trustee 1749-1790; had four alumni grandsons
2.	James Wilson	(Pa.)	A.M. (hon.) 1766; LL.D. 1790; Faculty 1772; 1779; 1790-1798; Trustee 1779-1798; had alumnus son
3.	Benjamin Rush	(Pa.)	Medical Student ca. 1766; Faculty 1769-1813; had two alumni sons
4.	George Clymer	(Pa.)	Trustee 1779-1813; had Academy alumnus son
5.	Robert Morris	(Pa.)	Trustee 1778-1791; had two alumni sons
6.	Francis Hopkinson	(N.J.)	A.B. 1757; A.M. 1760; LL.D. 1790; Trustee 1778-1791; also Academy 1751-1754; had alumnus son
7.	Thomas McKean	(Del.)	A.M. (hon.) 1763; LL.D. 1785; Trustee 1779-1817; President of Trustees; had alumnus son
8.	William Paca	(Md.)	A.B. 1759; A.M. 1762; also Academy 1752-1756; had Academy alumnus son

Also:

Charles Thomson, not officially a Signer but a counter-signatory of the first printing in his role of Secretary of the Continental Congress, was a member of the Academy faculty 1750-1755 and LL.D. (hon.) 1784.
Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration, was grandfather of a student in the Medical School.

This list was prepared by former University Archivist Francis James Dallett (A.M. 1955)