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Caesar Rodney was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and politician from St. Jones Neck in Dover Hundred, Kent County, Delaware. He was an officer of the Delaware militia during the French and India
20th-century image; no contemporary portrait exists.
Declaration of Independence, by John Trumbull (1818) portrays the presentation of the Declaration of Independence to Congress. Rodney is not depicted.
Caesar Rodney on the 1999 Delaware State Quarter.
An Equestrian statue of Caesar Rodney on Rodney Square. Removed in June 2020, it is currently exhibited in Washington, D.C.’s Freedom Plaza.
George Read was an American politician from New Castle in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a Continental Congressman from Delaware, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, preside
Caesar Rodney
…Party, a distinct minority in Kent County. As such, he generally worked in partnership with Thomas McKean from New Castle County and in opposition to George Read. In 1765, Rodney joined McKean as a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress and was a leader of the Delaware Committee of Correspondence. He began his service…
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George Read plaque at Immanuel Episcopal Church graveyard in New Castle, Delaware
The Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence in Washington, D.C., Read's depicted signature is at the lower left