Elbridge Thomas Gerry (1744-1814)

Eldridge Gerry was a delegate representing Massachusetts to the US Constitutional Convention of 1787.

Statesman
In the summer of 1787, he was one of two delegates representing New Hampshire at the Constitutional Convention.

A Harvard educated wealth merchant who served in both the Massachusetts state legislature and the national Congress. He signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. However, he constantly opposed measures leading to an overly strong centralized government and quit the Convention at the very end after failure of his proposal to include the Bill of Rights into the Constitution itself.