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Jonathan Dayton, son of a storekeeper in Elizabethtown, had served with distinction in the Revolution, and, at twenty-six, was the convention's youngest delegate. Pierce, an army comrade, said that Dayton had ``an impetuosity in his temper'' that was injurious to him, but that he also had an ``honest rectitude.''

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The youngest delegate to attend the constitutional convention was Johathan Dayton, from Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth) New Jersey. He was 26. Dayton, for whom Dayton Ohio is named, was a war hero, and he later became Speaker of the House and then a US Senator. His political career was destroyed when we was arrested for treason in 1807, in connection to Aaron Burr's conspiracy. He was released and never tried.

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Jonathan Dayton of New Jersey was the youngest at age 26.

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Thomas Jefferson, who was 33 years old at the time.

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