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John Dickinson
Founding Father, American Revolution General, U.S. Constitutional Convention Delegate,
Governor of Pennsylvania, Governor of Delaware, Continental Congressman, Lawyer, Politician
Founding Father, American Revolution General, U.S. Constitutional Convention Delegate,
Governor of Pennsylvania, Governor of Delaware, Continental Congressman, Lawyer, Politician
John Dickinson (November 13, 1732 – February 14, 1808) was an American lawyer 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." He is the namesake of Dickinson College and Penn State University's Dickinson Sch » Full Bio
Governments could not give the rights essential to happiness… We claim them from a higher source: from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth. ~ John Dickinson
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