John Dickinson
U.S. Congressperson
1732 – 1808
Who was John Dickinson?
John Dickinson was an American solicitor and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware. He was a militia officer during the American Revolution, a Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania and Delaware, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, President of Delaware and President of Pennsylvania. Among the wealthiest men in the British American colonies, he is known as the "Penman of the Revolution" for his Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania; upon receiving news of his death, President Thomas Jefferson recognized him as being "among the first of the advocates for the rights of his country when assailed by Great Britain" whose "name will be consecrated in history as one of the great worthies of the revolution." Together with his wife Mary Norris Dickinson he is the namesake of Dickinson College, Penn State University's Dickinson School of Law, and University of Delaware's Dickinson Complex.
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- Born
- Nov 2, 1732
Talbot County - Siblings
- Spouses
- Mary Norris
(1770/07/19 - )
- Mary Norris
- Religion
- Religious Society of Friends
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Maryland
- Pennsylvania
- Wilmington
- Kent County
- Died
- Feb 14, 1808
Wilmington
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on July 23, 2013
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