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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Delaware / New JerseyPhilemon DICKINSON
(1739-1809)
Senate Years of Service:
1790-1793Party: Pro-AdministrationDICKINSON, Philemon,
(brother of John Dickinson), a Delegate from Delaware and a Senator
from New Jersey; born at ‘Crosia-dore,’ near Trappe,
Talbot County, Md., April 5, 1739; moved with his parents to Dover,
Del., in 1740, where he received his education from a private
tutor; graduated in the first class of the University of
Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1759; superintended his
father’s estates in Delaware until 1760; studied law in
Philadelphia; admitted to the bar, but never practiced; moved to
Trenton, N.J., in 1767; delegate to the New Jersey Provincial
Congress in 1776; served in the Revolutionary War; was commissioned
brigadier general in 1776, and in 1777 major general commanding the
New Jersey Militia, serving in the latter capacity throughout the
Revolution; Member of the Continental Congress from Delaware
1782-1783; vice president of the Council of New Jersey 1783-1784;
member of the commission to choose a site for the national capital
in 1784; elected to the United States Senate from New Jersey to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Paterson and
served from November 23, 1790, to March 3, 1793; was not a
candidate for renomination; devoted his time to the care of his
estates; died at his home, ‘The Hermitage,’ near
Trenton, N.J., February 4, 1809; interment in the Friends Meeting
House Burying Ground, Trenton, N.J.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Dickinson, Wharton.
“Philemon Dickinson: Major-General: New Jersey
Militia—Revolutionary Service.” Magazine of American
History 7 (December 1881): 420-27.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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