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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—DelawareRODNEY, Caesar
(1728—1784)
RODNEY, Caesar, (brother of Thomas Rodney, uncle of Caesar Augustus Rodney, and cousin of George Brydges Rodney), a Delegate from Delaware; born in Dover, Del., October 7, 1728; completed preparatory studies; engaged in agricultural pursuits; high sheriff of Kent County 1755-1758; justice of the peace; judge of all lower courts; captain in the Kent County Militia in 1756; superintendent of the printing of Delaware currency in 1759; member of the state assembly 1762-1769; superintendent of the loan office in 1769; associate justice of the Delaware Supreme Court 1769-1777; Member of the Continental Congress 1774-1776; a signer of the Declaration of Independence; served in the Revolutionary Army as a brigadier general; elected President of Delaware and served from 1778 to 1782; elected to the Continental Congress in 1782 and 1783 but did not serve; died in Dover, Del., June 26, 1784; interment on his farm, “Byfield,” near Dover; reinterment in Christ Churchyard, Dover, Del.
Bibliography
Frank, William and Harold Hancock. “Caesar Rodney’s Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary: An Evaluation.” Delaware History
18 (Fall-Winter 1976): 63-76; Rodney, Caesar. Letters To and From Caesar Rodney, 1756-1784.
Edited by George Ryden. 1933. Reprint, New York: DaCapo Press, 1970.
Carlton, Henry Fisk. Caesar Rodney’s Ride
. Edited by Claire T. Zyve. New York City: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University [1932].
Frank, William and Harold Hancock. “Caesar Rodney’s Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary: An Evaluation.” Delaware History 18 (Fall-Winter 1976): 63-76.
Melchiore, Susan McCarthy. Caesar Rodney: American Patriot.
. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2000.
Rodney, Caesar. Letters To and From Caesar Rodney, 1756-1784
. Edited by George Ryden. 1933. Reprint, New York: DaCapo Press, 1970.
[Ryden, George Herbert]. Biographical sketches of Caesar Rodney (the signer) Thomas Rodney and Caesar A. Rodney
. [Dover, Del.: N.p., 1943].
Scott, Jane. A Gentleman as Well as a Whig: Caesar Rodney and the American Revolution
. National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Delaware. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2000.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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