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
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Declaration of Independence, by John Trumbull (1818) portrays the presentation of the Declaration of Independence to Congress.
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
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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
George Read (American politician, born 1733)
…quickly advocated independence from the British. Read was often the leader of the Court party faction, and as such he generally worked in opposition to Caesar Rodney and his friend and neighbor Thomas McKean. Read, like most other people in Delaware, was in favor of trying to reconcile differences with Great Britain…
20th-century image; no contemporary portrait exists.
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.