I started up and spoke, stamping, as I walked up and down, with my wooden leg; and, as I was certain I had the best of the argument, as I finished I stalked up to the President, slapped him on the back, and said.

"Ain't I right, General ?" The President did not speak, but the majesty of the American people was before me.

Oh, his look! How I wished the floor would open and I could descend to the cellar! You know me," continued Mr.Morris, "and you know my eye would never quail before any other mortal."-- W.

T.Read, Life and Correspondence of George Read (1870) p.441.
There were other prominent members of the Pennsylvania delegation, but none of them took an important part in the Convention, not even the aged Benjamin Franklin, President of the State.

At the age of eighty-one his powers were failing, and he was so feeble that his colleague Wilson read his speeches for him.