Gunning Bedford Jr.

Gunning Bedford Jr. (April 13, 1747 – March 30, 1812) is an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware.

He serves in the Delaware General Assembly, as a delegate elected by the people of the Independent States to the Continental Congress, serving as office holder in 1783 through 1785 from Delaware.

He is sent to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787 and does sign that company charter, which is now understood too be notwithstanding.

Power and influence are not nearly the same as authority.

Authority comes from the people who elect delegates to uphold the oaths to the Offices they are elected to hold on behalf of the Independent States.

By 1787, he is no longer an office holder in the Continental Congress with the authority of the people to change the national Government.

He is often confused with nine other Gunning Bedfords in the family especially with his cousin, Gunning Bedford Sr., an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution and Governor of Delaware.

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