John Dickinson (delegate) (1732–1808), American lawyer, delegate to the Continental Congress and to the Constitutional Convention
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Dickinson has correctly been called the "Penman of the Revolution" by later historians.
Dickinson's career began with his election to the Assembly in the Lower Counties (of Delaware) in 1759.
At the gathering in Philadelphia, Dickinson's voice was strong, setting forth a defense of small states, a position that led to the Great Compromise in congressional representation.
JOHNDICKINSON (1732-1808), American statesman and pamphleteer, was born in Talbot (Family)Talbot county, Maryland, on the 8th of November 1732.
He was president of the executive council, or chief executive officer, of Delaware in 1781-1782, and of Pennsylvania in 1782-1785, and was a delegate from Delaware to the Annapolis convention of 1786 and the federal constitutional convention of 1787.
He helped to found Dickinson College (named in his honour) at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1783, was the first president of its board of 1 Being under the same proprietor and the same governor, Pennsylvania and Delaware were so closely connected before the Revolution that there was an interchange of public men.
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