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.
A statue of Founding Father Caesar Rodney, in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., was initially installed in Wilmington, Delaware, in Rodney Square on July 4, 1923. It was designed by New York sculptor
Caesar Rodney
…The Caesar Rodney School District in Delaware is named after him. A statue of Rodney riding a horse was unveiled in Rodney Square in Wilmington, Delaware on July 4, 1923. The statue was removed and placed in private storage in 2020, amidst the George…
Pedestal after the statue was removed for safe keeping