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John Dickinson (November 13, 1732 [November 2 (old style)] – February 14, 1808) 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

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  • John Dickinson (Pennsylvania and Delaware)
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  • John Dickinson (November 13, 1732 [November 2 (old style)] – February 14, 1808) 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
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  • President of Delaware
  • Continental Congressman
  • from Delaware
  • from Pennsylvania
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  • 1774-08-02(xsd:date)
  • 1779-01-18(xsd:date)
  • 1781-11-13(xsd:date)
  • 1782-11-13(xsd:date)
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  • 1732-11-13(xsd:date)
Residence
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Kent County, Delaware
  • Wilmington, Delaware
death place
  • Wilmington, Delaware
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  • John Dickinson
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  • Democratic-Republican
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  • Talbot County, Maryland
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  • 1776-11-07(xsd:date)
  • 1781-02-10(xsd:date)
  • 1783-01-12(xsd:date)
  • 1785-10-18(xsd:date)
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  • 1808-02-14(xsd:date)
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  • Quakers
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  • --11-07
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  • John Dickinson (November 13, 1732 [November 2 (old style)] – February 14, 1808) 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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