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Delaware Officeholders, 1787–1788 PRESIDENT ATTORNEY GENERAL Thomas Collins Gunning Bedford, Jr. SECRETARY OF STATE TREASURER James Booth Joshua Clayton PRIVY COUNCIL (October 1787): John Clayton, Eleazer McComb, Charles Pope, James Sykes SUPREME COURT William Killen (Chief Justice), David Finney, John Jones MEMBERS OF CONGRESS (1786–1787): Gunning Bedford, Sr. (declined), Dyre Kearny (replaced Bedford), Nathaniel Mitchell, Thomas Rodney; (1787–1788): Isaac Grantham, Dyre Kearny, Nathaniel Mitchell DELEGATES TO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION Richard Bassett, Gunning Bedford, Jr., Jacob Broom, John Dickinson, George Read LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Speaker: Thomas McDonoughClerk: James Sykes, John Edmunds Clayton NEW CASTLE COUNTY SUSSEX COUNTY Thomas McDonough Daniel Polk George Read Alexander Laws Nicholas Van Dyke Simon Kollock (election voided, KENT COUNTY 3 November) James Tilton Isaac Horsey John Baning (elected 26 November; John Cook seated January 1788) HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY Speaker: Thomas Rodney, Jehu Davis Clerk: James Booth NEW CASTLE COUNTY KENT COUNTY Alexander Porter James Raymond Thomas Evans John Gordon Isaac Grantham Mark M’Call Henry Latimer Jehu Davis Thomas May John Revell Thomas Robinson Thomas Rodney Joshua Clayton John Vining SUSSEX COUNTY SUSSEX COUNTY (Election voided, 7 November) (Elected 26 November; Rhoads Shankland seated January 1788) George Mitchell Rhoads Shankland Charles Polk George Mitchell Nathaniel Hayes Charles Polk William Peery Nathaniel Hayes John Tennant Jeremiah Cannon Nathaniel Waples Hap Hazzard William Massey Cite as: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution Digital Edition, ed. John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, Richard Leffler, Charles H. Schoenleber and Margaret A. Hogan. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. Canonic URL: http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/RNCN-02-03-02-0001-0005 [accessed 16 Dec 2010] Original source: Ratification by the States, Volume III: Delaware, New Jersey, Georgia, and Connecticut .

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