Five future Supreme Court justices attended the Constitutional Convention of 1787: John Rutledge from South Carolina, Oliver Ellsworth from Connecticut, William Paterson from New Jersey, James Wilson from Pennsylvania, and John Blair from Virginia. They were among the fifty-five delegates attending the famous Philadelphia Convention who created the U.S. Constitution. Future justice Gabriel Duvall was chosen to be one of Maryland’s four delegates to the Convention but he, along with the other delegates from Maryland, never attended.