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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Delaware / PennsylvaniaJohn DICKINSON
(1732-1808)
DICKINSON, John, (brother
of Philemon Dickinson), a Delegate from Pennsylvania and from
Delaware; born on his father’s estate,
“Crosiadore,” near Trappe, Talbot County, Md., November
8, 1732; moved with his parents in 1740 to Dover, Del., where he
studied under a private teacher; studied law in Philadelphia and at
the Middle Temple in London; was admitted to the bar in 1757 and
commenced practice in Philadelphia; member of the Assembly of
“Lower Counties,” as the State of Delaware was then
called, in 1760; member of the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1762 and
1764; delegate to the Stamp Act Congress in 1765; Member from
Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress 1774-1776 and from
Delaware in 1779; brigadier general of Pennsylvania Militia;
President of the State of Delaware in 1781; returned to
Philadelphia and served as President of Pennsylvania 1782-1785;
returned to Delaware; was a member of the Federal convention of
1787 which framed the Constitution and was one of the signers from
Delaware; died in Wilmington, New Castle County, Del., on February
14, 1808; interment in Wilmington Friends Meetinghouse Burial
Ground.
Bibliography
Jacobson, David Louis. John Dickinson and the Revolution in
Pennsylvania, 1764-1776. Berkeley, Calif.: University of
California Press, 1965; Calvert Jane E., “Liberty Without
Tumult: Understanding the Politics of John Dickinson,”
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 131 (July
2007): 233-62.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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