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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: John Dickinson, Michael Castle, George Read, Caesar Rodney, Thomas Clayton, Richard Bassett, Charles Polk, Jr., Ruth Ann Minner, John M. Vining, David Hazzard, Nicholas Van Dyke, William Temple, Henry Molleston, Harris B. McDowell, Jr., Nathaniel Mitchell, Samuel Paynter, Gunning Bedford, Jr., James Sykes, Willard Hall, William H. Wells, Caleb Rodney, George Truitt, Gunning Bedford, Sr., Gove Saulsbury, John Cook, Thomas Collins, Daniel Rogers, Joseph Maull, J. Frank Allee, Thomas Cooper, Jacob Stout, Simeon S. Pennewill, Charles Thomas, William Tharp, James Ponder, Charles L. Copeland, John W. Hall, Presley Spruance, William T. Watson, Charles R. Miller, James Williams, Charles C. Stockley, Archibald Alexander, Colin R. J. Bonini, Victor Marie du Pont, Caleb S. Layton, Charles I. du Pont, Thurman Adams, Jr., Brian Bushweller, Patricia Blevins, Anthony J. DeLuca, Andrew Gray. Excerpt: John Dickinson (November 8, 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 School of Law. Dickinson was born at Croisadore, his family's tobacco ...
