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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Pennsylvania / DelawareDICKINSON, John
(1732—1808)
DICKINSON, John, (brother of Philemon Dickinson), a Delegate from Pennsylvania and from Delaware; born on his father’s estate, “Crosiadoré,” 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.
Dickinson, John. The Farmer’s and Monitor’s Letters to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies
. Virginia Independence Bicentennial Edition. Williamsburg, Va.: Printed by W. Rind, 1769.
———. The Late Regulations Respecting the British Colonies on the Continent of America Considered, In a Letter From a Gentleman in Philadelphia to His Friend in London
. Philadelphia, printed; London, re-printed for J. Almon, 1766.
———. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
. 1768. Reprint, St. Clair Shores, Mich.: Scholarly Press, [1969].&
———. The Letters of Fabius, in 1788, on the Federal Constitution and in 1797, on the Present Situation of Public Affairs
. Wilmington, Del.: From the Office of the Delaware Gazette, by W.C. Smyth, 1797.
———. A New Essay (by the Pennsylvanian Farmer) on the Constitutional Power of Great-Britain Over the Colonies in America; With the Resolves of the Committee for the Province of Pennsylvania, and Their Instructions to Their Representatives in Assembly
. Philadelphia, printed; London, re-printed for J. Almon, 1774.
———. The Political Writings of John Dickinson, 1764-1774
. 1801. Reprint, edited by Paul Leicester Ford. New York: Da Capo Press, 1970.
Flower, Milton Embick. John Dickinson, Conservative Revolutionary
. Charlottesville, Va.: Published for the Friends of the John Dickinson Mansion by the University Press of Virginia, 1983.
Fredman, Lionel E. John Dickinson, American Revolutionary Statesman
. Charlotteville, N.Y.: SamHar Press, 1974.
Jacobson, David Louis. John Dickinson and the Revolution in Pennsylvania, 1764-1776
. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1965.
McDonald, Forrest. Empire and Nation: Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, John Dickinson. Letters from the Federal Farmer, Richard Henry Lee
. Indianapolis, Ind.: Liberty Fund, 1999.
Scull, Florence D. John Dickinson Sounds the Alarm
. Philadelphia: Auerbach Publishers, [1972].
Stille, Charles J. The Life and Times of John Dickinson, 1732-1808
. 1891. Reprint, New York: B. Franklin, [1969].
Willson, John. John Dickinson - The Letters of Fabius (1788)
. Hillsdale, Mich.: Hillsdale College Press, 1992.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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