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The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions." --American Statesman Daniel Webster (1782-1852)


Wednesday, July 9, 2025

CEO Says that Half of America's White Collar workers will be obsolete due to A.I.

 I saw this on Forbes and it reminded me of something that I posted 5 years ago in 2020 and I will repost in its entirety, and I will make bold the key passages and I will add an addendum.  Most of the HR dept of most corporations are the Bastions of D.E.I. so if you are a white collar straight white dude you will have problems because most corporations will go out of their way not to hire or keep you.   I don't worry about it because I have a technical degree plus an A&P license and I am close to retirement, so I am not so affected, but many younger guys will be affected, I have warned my son, he is pursuing an A&P license plus other technical skills to make himself more employable and to better protect his future.  I have told other "Kids" the same things.  If you go white collar, get a technical degree, it will protect you better in an uncertain world.

                                                The first part was from 2020

My apologies for not posting...I have been suffering from what could be called a "malaise of spirit" as it were.  I had run across this article and the taglines really stuck with me..The Italized is the quotes from the article I read and shamelessly cut and pasted....Hey I do that sometimes...But the article is linked on my post if you want to read the article for your viewing pleasure.

"For if the very public Black Lives Matter protests have polarized America, the silent fallout has now reached Hollywood."

"A revolution is under way. White actors are being fired. Edicts from studio bosses make it clear that only minorities – racial and sexual – can be given jobs.A new wave of what has been termed by some as anti-white prejudice is causing writers, directors and producers to fear they will never work again. One described the current atmosphere as ‘more toxic than Chernobyl’, with leading actors afraid to speak out amid concern they will be labelled racist."

The first sign came with one of the most powerful black directors in Hollywood, Oscar-winning Jordan Peele – the man behind box office hits such as Get Out and Us – stated in public that he did not want to hire a leading man who was white.‘I don’t see myself casting a white dude as the lead in my movie,’ Peele said. ‘Not that I don’t like white dudes. But I’ve seen that movie before.’As one studio executive responded privately: ‘If a white director said that about hiring a black actor, their career would be over in a heartbeat.’ Few doubt it.

The race card is a very powerful card.

Peele is more vocal than most about his hiring policy, but his outlook is increasingly widespread. Dozens of producers, writers and actors have spoken to The Mail on Sunday about the wave of ‘reverse racism’ pulsing through the industry.

It’s not “reverse racism” it’s racism pure and simple. Africans can be racists and they are. Black Lives Matter is a racist organization.

speaking on condition of anonymity, the executive confirmed that the climate is now toxic for any ‘white, middle-aged man in showbusiness’. Their careers, ‘are pretty much over’.  They continued: ‘We’re only hiring people of colour, women or LGBT to write, star, produce, operate the cameras, work in craft services. If you are white, you can’t speak out because you will instantly be branded ‘racist’ or condemned for "‘white privilege’."

This is fucking great! I love to see the left eating its own and that is exactly what is going on in Hollywood. Guess what “middle aged white men”, you let this happen and now you are paying the price. Let’s see Hollywood produce movies only starring Africans. Won’t bother me a bit since I don’t go to movies anymore. I will love seeing all of those white liberal actors not getting cast in any movies anymore

.‘The pendulum has swung so far, everyone is paralyzed with fear by the idea anything you say could be misinterpreted and your career ended instantly. There are a lot of hushed conversations going on, but publicly everyone is desperate to be seen to be promoting diversity and too terrified to speak out. It’s imploding: a total meltdown.’


 Sure I am enjoying the Hollywood leftist eating their own, there is a certain satisfaction watching that happen after watching that cultural trainwreck coming into the station, after seeing them screw over their country for 20 plus years by embracing the latest and greatest of the leftist causes  all of a sudden to find themselves on the outside looking in and wondering "what just happened" and realized that they are 2nd class citizens now.   But the realization for me is that what happened in Hollywood is happening all over the United States especially in Corporate America.  We have  the CEO of NBC stating that he is pushing to reflect 50% diversity hire in his company in new initiative's  and right now his company is a mix of men and women and he states that he wants to set a cap of 25% of white males in his company and if memory serves, it about 38% white males  so he will have to early retire them, or offer severance packages or outright fire them to meet his goal.  Now this practice will become more widespread as the wave continues and more companies will do the same practice and it will be acceptable.  Sure it is discrimination, but nobody will fight it because of "systemic racism(tm)"  and if somebody tries to fight it in court they will be committing career suicide and they will be toxic for any future employment, Tell me I am wrong in this present corporate environment.
      I am what is called a "Summer Chicken" as I like to joke, which means I have lived more of my life behind me than what is left to me and I am fine with that, but I am concerned what kind of life my son will have, being treated a 2nd class citizen in the United States.  I was at Sams Club picking up items for the spousal unit yesterday per her request, and my county is a "blue" county, it swung blue back in 2014 and voted for *Felonia Von Pantsuit* in 2016.  Where I live in my county is still "Trump" territory, I call it "Roarks Drift" as a Tongue in Cheek reference, but while in Sams club with the mobs of people there were a lot of democrats and most of them were looking at me with hostility or what my friend *Shelldude* would call the "Fuck you look" I saw a lot of "Black lives matter shirts" and the "Enough is Enough" and the ever popular "I can't Breath". and I really didn't like this at all, it is a unfamiliar  sensation,  because as a rule I am very polite to people I nodded and smiled, No I didn't wear my Trump 2020 Hat, I didn't feel like provoking a confrontation and in the political arena, I would lose, even if I am in the right because the DA would suck and swallow to the mob. I push the envelope with my truck having the "deplorable Inside" sticker on the back  as it is.

But that is from 2016 but the rest of the stuff still marks me as a conservative so who knows...My son will graduate in 2021 and we will move in a few years, we don't know where we will go, I made jokes about moving to Texas but the Spousal unit wasn't happy about that suggestion, we would have to find employment out there.  We will move because we must, we cannot remain here, I do not want to stay here, for what  I fear is coming.   my friend *Shelldude*  is somewhat prescient had coined a phrase in the 90's "Balkenization" I fear that this is coming I have to look to move to a place where there is more like me for no other reason than for my and my wife's safety.  I never thought I would have to say that.  I in the 1980's thought we were past all this tribal bullshit, but Obama really got it stirred up and and it has bore fruit.
       All of this kinda put me into a funk.  It just came into a head, My creative energy was just kaput, I read my blogroll but I had no energy to put anything into the blog, I was bummed as they say. I would look at the keyboard and see nothing....and desultory tap the keyboard....tap.....tap....tap...then wipe the screen and close the screen and walk away....This sucks.
      On the flipside...with Hollywood having a meltdown there is room for independent productions to start making movies, with good quality content and not full of PC bullshit and if it sells well in the movies or on Netflix or what have you, it may break the back or the stranglehold that Hollywood has on the movie industry. and the culture wars.  The last movie I saw was Midway and I considered it Pretty well done, overall, some minor glitches but well told. and some of those "woke" stars now that they have been burned and those conservatives that have been hiding, can come out of the closet, have nothing to lose can come out with the independents where merit counts and not how many checks you can mark off on a diversity card.

*My Name for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 Election

                                       The 2025 article

              This is the article from "Forbes" dealing with A.I. and the white collar workforce.   A.I is the up and coming thing as companies are looking to cut cost and overhead and salaries is a traditional way to go.

Ford CEO Jim Farley did something unprecedented last week. He said what CEOs behind closed doors have been discussing for months — that half of America’s white-collar workers are obsolete. "AI is going to replace literally half of all white-collar workers," he said at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

No hedge. No "but new jobs will emerge." Just the truth.

You can only imagine the conversations CEOs are having in closed-door meetings mapping out exactly which roles disappear first. They’ve run the numbers. They’ve seen the demos. They’ve already decided who stays and who goes. The only thing that changed last week is that another executive finally started saying it publicly.

JPMorgan’s Marianne Lake, the CEO of its Consumer & Community Banking and a member of the JPMorganChase Operating Committee, recently told investors that she could see headcount in operations dropping by 10% in the coming years as the bank implemented new AI tools. Amazon’s Andy Jassy called it "once-in-a-lifetime" technology that will shrink their corporate workforce. Anthropic's CEO went further , predicting 20% unemployment within five years.

But here’s what they’re not telling you: All those jobs aren’t disappearing. Some of them will be transformed into gig-economy jobs.

The Lie Everyone Pretended to Believe

When you zoom out, we’re starting to see a consistent theme: Some CEOs have stopped pretending. For two years, we’ve endured the corporate theater of "AI augments, it doesn’t replace" while some companies quietly tried to automate entire departments. The consulting firms sold "transformation roadmaps." HR departments hosted "upskilling workshops." Everyone is playing along.

But when Shopify’s CEO tells managers they can’t hire unless they prove AI can’t do the job, the pretense crumbles. When Fiverr’s CEO writes "AI is coming for you" — listing programmers, designers, lawyers and finance professionals by name — the comfortable fiction unravels.

The fear is, "If we don’t do it, someone else will. And then we're the ones getting replaced."

The White-Collar Gig Economy Is Already in Motion

The transformation isn’t coming — it’s here, hiding in plain sight. A remarkable 36% of employed respondents (equivalent to 58 million Americans when extrapolated from the representative sample) identify as independent workers, according to McKinsey’s American Opportunity Survey. This figure represents a notable increase since we estimated the 2016 U.S. independent workforce at 27% of the employed population. The gig economy is growing three times faster than the total U.S. workforce, with half of the entire U.S.-based working population likely to have joined it by 2027.

Walk into any co-working space at 2 p.m. and count the laptops: former executives running fractional services, laid-off analysts selling expertise on demand. Approximately 3 million full-time gig workers (20%) are earning over $100,000 per year, while a third of employed respondents who earn more than $150,000 a year also say they work independently. This isn’t just Uber drivers anymore — it’s lawyers, accountants and consultants.

Companies aren’t just dabbling — More than 36% (57 million) of Americans have a gig work arrangement either as their primary or secondary job. The pandemic accelerated what was already inevitable: layoffs during the pandemic and cost-of-living issues may have pushed a larger number of workers to become independent workers. The enterprise software company that laid off engineers? They're contractors now. Same code, different classification. The gig economy conquered blue-collar work. Now it's coming for the corner office.

So How Does This Unfold?

So how are you getting ready for this?

Phase 1 (happening now): Companies freeze hiring for any role an AI can partially do. When someone quits, their work gets parceled out to contractors using AI tools. Marketing manager leaves? Five freelancers with ChatGPT replace them at half the cost.

Phase 2 (6 months): Mass "restructuring" eliminates entire departments. Surviving managers become "vendor relationship coordinators," overseeing networks of gig workers and AI systems. Your accounting department becomes one controller managing 20 fractional bookkeepers.

Phase 3 (18 months): The full gig transformation. Need a financial analysis? Post it on the internal gig platform. Need a marketing campaign? Another gig. Legal review? Gig lawyer with AI does it in two hours instead of two days.

Phase 4 (3 years): The companies that survive have 20% of their previous full-time headcount, but 500% more gig relationships. The corporation becomes a hub, not a hierarchy.

IBM’s CEO spoke about replacing HR workers with AI while hiring more programmers. He left out the part where those programmers are increasingly contractors, probably not employees.

The Gig Economy Nobody Prepared You For

When we imagined the gig economy, we pictured Uber drivers and TaskRabbit handymen and women. We didn't picture:

  • CFOs working for 10 companies simultaneously
  • Marketing directors running campaigns for competitors on alternate days
  • Software architects designing systems by the sprint, not the year
  • HR executives doing layoffs as a service (yes, this is real)

Just imagine doing the same work, just without the meetings, politics and commute.

So what about that full-time position you have? Is it already a gig job and you just don’t know it yet? Is your company one restructuring away from offering you the "opportunity" to continue your exact same work as a 1099 contractor?

The smart folks are getting ahead of it.

Three Options in the White-Collar Gig Economy

If you're reading this from your corporate desk, you have three paths:

1. The Denial Play: Ignore it. Cling to your "stable" job. Act surprised when it becomes a gig without your consent.

2. The Prepared Pivot: Start building your gig infrastructure now. Incorporate. Build a client base. Test the waters while you still have a salary.

3. The Gig Accelerator: Jump first. Use AI to serve multiple clients. Build the systems that let you outcompete your former employer.

Most will choose option one. They'll become reluctant gig workers, competing on price in a race to the bottom.

The Surprising Opportunities

The gig economy isn't just about cost-cutting. It's about capability multiplication.

The New Power Players:

Fractional Executives : Why be a full-time CMO for one company when you can be fractional CMO for five? Top fractional executives now out-earn their full-time counterparts by 3-5x.

AI-Powered Boutiques: Small teams using AI to compete with major firms. A three-person "agency" in Austin can win a contract from a Fortune 500 that used to go to a larger agency. Their secret? AI does 80% of the work, they do the 20% that matters.

Expertise Networks: Loose collectives of gig workers who team up for large projects. No office, no overhead, pure expertise.

The Micro-Multinational: Individual contractors serving global clients from anywhere. A designer in Buenos Aires or Bali can work for Silicon Valley startups any time of day. A financial analyst in Ohio can serve banks in Asia. Geography becomes irrelevant when AI handles the grunt work.

The Skills That Matter in the Gig Economy

The gig economy rewards different talents. Make sure you focus on the skills that matter.

  • Self-Marketing: Your LinkedIn becomes your lifeline
  • AI Integration: Not just using AI, but building AI-powered service offerings
  • Network Building: Your network is your net worth, literally
  • Financial Management: You're now CFO of You, Inc.
  • Rapid Adaptation: New client, new industry, new challenge every month

The corporate drone who can only function inside a hierarchy? Those days are numbered. The adaptable professional who can deliver value anywhere? That’s a six-figure gig worker.

So What Does This Mean for Me?

If You Are A Current Employee: Your job might already be temporary. Start building your gig option now, while you still have steady income to fund the transition.

If You Are A Recent Graduate: Consider skipping the corporate ladder entirely. Build gig capabilities from day one. Why start at $60K when you can bill $150/hour?

If You Are A Middle Manager: Your coordination skills are perfect for managing gig networks. Become the hub that connects and directs gig talent.

If You Are A Parent: Teach your kids entrepreneurship, not employment. The ability to find clients and deliver value is a lifelong skill that’s critical in the AI era.

The white-collar gig economy isn’t coming. It's here.

But here’s the silver lining: The same force destroying traditional employment is democratizing opportunity. The tools replacing corporate jobs enable individual empire building. The technology eliminating positions creates possibilities for those who grab them.

You can enter the gig economy as a victim — laid off and scrambling. Or you can enter as a leader — prepared, positioned and profitable.

Monday, July 7, 2025

Monday Music "Disco Inferno" by The Traamps

 

  I decided to roll with some 70's Disco.  Saturday night Fever rejuvenated the Genre that was starting to fade.  A lot of people hated Disco but I like the fast paced music and man talk about the costumes.  You don't see stuff like that now a days.  I make no bones about it, I prefer the older music to what is playing now...Occasionally I hear something that is "modern" that I consider really talented like Adele.  But overall I think the Music  industry is in the doldrums of suckitude.  Where are the acts that blazed a trail with talent....now it is just "shock " value.   Where is the showcase of talent?  Like I have commented in a prior posting...Look at Motown....they influenced music like nothing else did and look what is coming out now....   I have been accused of living in the past....Perhaps I am....it keeps me young I suppose.



"Disco Inferno" is a 1976 song by The Trammps from the album of the same name. With two other cuts by the group it reached number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in early 1977, but had limited mainstream success in the U.S. until 1978, after being included on the soundtrack to the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever, when a re-release hit number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.
It was also notably covered by Cyndi Lauper on the A Night at the Roxbury soundtrack and Tina Turner on the What's Love Got to Do with It soundtrack.

The song was originally recorded by The Trammps in 1976 and released as a single. It was inspired by a scene in the 1974 blockbuster film The Towering Inferno in which a discotheque is caught in the blaze. According to Tom Moulton, who mixed the record, the Dolby noise reduction had been set incorrectly during the mixdown of the tracks. When engineer Jay Mark discovered the error and corrected it, the mix had a much wider dynamic range than was common at the time. Due to this, the record seems to "jump out" at the listener. With "Starvin'" and "Body Contact Contract", it topped the U.S. Disco chart for six weeks in the late winter of 1977. On the other US charts, "Disco Inferno" hit number nine on the Black Singles chart, but it was not initially a significant success at pop radio, peaking at number fifty-three on the Billboard Hot 100.
"Disco Inferno" gained much greater recognition once it was included on the soundtrack to the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever, this time in extended form, running nearly 11 minutes. Re-released by Atlantic Records, the track peaked at number eleven in the U.S. during the spring of 1978, becoming The Trammps' biggest and most-recognized single. Later, it was included in the Saturday Night Fever musical, interpreted by the 'DJ Monty' in the "Odissey 2001" discothèque.
The song also became an unofficial theme song for former New York Yankees outfielder Bernie Williams. It was often played at old Yankee Stadium while the scoreboard and video systems displayed the phrase "Bern Baby Bern", a play on the song's refrain and Williams' first name.
In 1996, "Disco Inferno" was included on the soundtrack to the cult comedy film Kingpin and featured in two pivotal scenes in which Roy Munson (played by Woody Harrelson) confidently strolls into a bowling alley. The song was also used in the trailer to the Adam Sandler comedy Bedtime Stories. In 2006, the extended version was featured on a remastered version of the Ghostbusters soundtrack.
On September 19, 2005, "Disco Inferno" was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame


Looks like "KC" of the KC and the Sunshine band on keyboards, and I might roll out with with some KC next week, LOL

Friday, July 4, 2025

Happy Birthday America!!!

 


                                                  Picture is off my front porch.


On this day back in 1776 the 13 Colonies decided to make a break of it and form their own country.  We have been fighting the Crown for a year at this point, but we still viewed ourselves as "loyal Subjects" and hoped that King George the III and his ministers would see reason and "lighten up", but too much blood has been spilt at this point and the founders figured "Why not go for broke, if we lose anyway, we will swing from the yardarm as traitors to the crown at this point", so they sent a "Declaration of Independence" announcing our Independence from the crown and made the fight "official.

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.


Georgia

Button Gwinnett

Lyman Hall

George Walton

 

North Carolina

William Hooper

Joseph Hewes

John Penn

 

South Carolina

Edward Rutledge

Thomas Heyward, Jr.

Thomas Lynch, Jr.

Arthur Middleton

 

Massachusetts

John Hancock

Maryland

Samuel Chase

William Paca

Thomas Stone

Charles Carroll of Carrollton

 

Virginia

George Wythe

Richard Henry Lee

Thomas Jefferson

Benjamin Harrison

Thomas Nelson, Jr.

Francis Lightfoot Lee

Carter Braxton

 

Pennsylvania

Robert Morris

Benjamin Rush

Benjamin Franklin

John Morton

George Clymer

James Smith

George Taylor

James Wilson

George Ross

Delaware

Caesar Rodney

George Read

Thomas McKean

 

New York

William Floyd

Philip Livingston

Francis Lewis

Lewis Morris

 

New Jersey

Richard Stockton

John Witherspoon

Francis Hopkinson

John Hart

Abraham Clark

 

New Hampshire

Josiah Bartlett

William Whipple

 

Massachusetts

Samuel Adams

John Adams

Robert Treat Paine

Elbridge Gerry

 

Rhode Island

Stephen Hopkins

William Ellery

 

Connecticut

Roger Sherman

Samuel Huntington

William Williams

Oliver Wolcott

 

New Hampshire

Matthew Thornton