ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION OF ILLINOIS
AUGUST 26, 1818-The Illinois constitutional convention, meeting at
Kaskaskia, adopts a state constitution and selects Kaskaskia as the first state capital.
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SIGNERS OF THE 1818 CONSTITUTION
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Bond -Thomas
Kirkpatrick, Samuel G. Morse
Crawford -Joseph
Kitchell, Ed N. Cullom
Edwards -Seth Gard,
Levi Compton
Franklin -Isham Harrison,
Thomas Roberts
Gallatin -Michael
Jones, Leo(nard) White, Adolphus Frederick Hubbard
Jackson -Conrad Will,
James Hall, Jr.
Johnson - Hezekiah
West, William McFatridge
Madison -B. Stephenson,
Joseph Burrough, Abraham Prickett
Monroe -Caldwell
Carns, Enoch Moore
Pope -Samuel Omelveny,
Hamlet Ferguson
Randolph -George
Fisher, Elias Kent Kane
St. Clair Co. -Thomas
Messinger, James Lemon, Jr., Jesse B. Thomas (President)
Union - William Echols,
John Whiteaker
Washington - Andrew
Bankson
White -Willis Hargrave,
William McHenry
Secretary to the Convention -William C. Greenup
Actual signatures of the 1818 Constitional Convention participants
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