American
- John Adams – Signer of the Declaration of Independence, diplomat, second President
- John Quincy Adams – Diplomat, senator, sixth President, congressman
- Samuel Adams – Boston revolutionary leader, signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Charles Carroll of Carrollton – Signer of the Declaration of Independence, senator
- George Clinton – Soldier, politician, NY governor, vice president
- John Dickinson – Lawyer, politician, writer, signer of the Declaration of Independence
- William Ellery – Signer of the Declaration of Independence from RI
- Benjamin Franklin – Philadelphia printer, writer, scientist, inventor, diplomat to France
- William Franklin – Royal Governor of NJ, Loyalist, son of Benjamin Franklin
- Elbridge Gerry – Signer of the Declaration of Independence, vice president under Madison
- Alexander Hamilton – Washington’s aide-de-camp, lawyer, Secretary of the Treasury
- John Hancock – Merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence, MA governor
- Patrick Henry – Lawyer, orator, VA governor
- Thomas Hutchinson – Last Royal Governor of MA
- Ralph Izard – Financier, Continental congressman, U.S. senator
- John Jay – Lawyer, diplomat, Continental congressman, first Chief Justice
- Thomas Jefferson – Lawyer, polymath, drafter of the Declaration of Independence, third President
- Henry Laurens – Merchant, planter, slave trader, president of Continental Congress
- Arthur Lee – Diplomat to France, Continental congressman
- Francis Lightfoot Lee – VA politician, signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Richard Henry Lee – VA revolutionary, signer of the Declaration of Independence, senator
- Philip Livingston – NY merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Robert R. Livingston – NY lawyer, politician, signer of the Declaration of Independence
- James Madison – Constitutionalist, congressman, Secretary of State, fourth President
- John Marshall – Soldier, lawyer, politician, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
- George Mason – Politician, author, political philosopher, Anti-Federalist
- James Monroe – Soldier, lawyer, VA governor, diplomat, fifth President
- Gouverneur Morris – Merchant, financier; helped draft then stylized the Constitution
- Robert Morris – Signer of the Declaration of Independence, “Financier of the Revolution”
- James Otis, Jr. – Lawyer, politician, Boston revolutionary
- Charles Pinckney – Soldier, Constitutional Convention delegate, South Carolina governor
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney – Lawyer, soldier, delegate to the Constitutional Convention
- Edmund Randolph – Lawyer, VA governor, Constitutional Convention delegate
- Peyton Randolph – Lawyer, VA politician, first president of Continental Congress
- George Read – Lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, senator for DE
- John Rutledge – SC governor, second Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
- Roger Sherman – Lawyer and politician from CT; signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Richard Stockton – Lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence
- James Wilson – Lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, Supreme Court justice
- George Wythe – Lawyer, teacher, scholar, signer of the Declaration of Independence
British
- Edmund Burke – Anglo-Irish statesman, orator, author, and political philosopher
- George Germain – British lord; American Secretary, 1775—82
- Earl of Hillsborough (Wills Hill) – American Secretary, 1768—72
- Frederick North – British Prime Minister during the Revolutionary War
French
- comte de Vergennes – French diplomat, Foreign Minister under Louis XVI