Richard Rush
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Richard Rush was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat who served as the 8th United States Attorney General from 1814 to 1817 and the 8th United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1825 to 182
Richard Rush
Bureau of Engraving and Printing portrait of Rush as Secretary of the Treasury.
Benjamin Rush
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Benjamin Rush was an American revolutionary, a Founding Father of the United States and signatory to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician,
Richard Rush
…member of the Madison and Monroe Cabinets. Rush was born on August 29, 1780, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the second son, and third child, of Benjamin Rush and Julia (Stockton) Rush, daughter of Richard Stockton and Annis Boudinot Stockton. He entered the College of New Jersey (now known as Princeton…
Rush's birthplace in the Byberry section of Philadelphia, photographed in 1959
The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777 a portrait by John Trumbull depicting Rush and General George Washington entering from the background with Captain William Leslie, shown on the right, mortally wounded
Ticket to an 1807 lecture given by Rush, then a University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine professor
A c. 1818 portrait of Rush by Charles Willson Peale