John Dickinson (Pennsylvania and Delaware)

John Dickinson ( born November 2, 1732 Talbot County, Maryland, † February 14, 1808 in Wilmington, Delaware) was a politician and founding father of the United States.

Dickinson came from a family of tobacco growers, was himself landowner, lawyer - and slaveholder. A moderate opponents of British policy towards the 13 colonies was a delegate of the Stamp Tax Congress, which was held in New York from 7 to October 25, 1765. In the years 1774 and 1775 Dickinson was a member of the First and Second Continental Congress and wrote the first Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms ( giving the reasons and need to take up arms ) and later the palm branch petition.

1767/68 he published ' Letters of a Pennsylvanian Farmer '. A book that describes the lives of farmers at that time.

From November 13, 1781 until November 7, 1782 Dickinson had held the office of President of Delaware, which corresponded to the position of governor. Same post he held in connection to the October 18, 1785 in Pennsylvania. In 1793, he was still sitting on the Democratic- Republican Party in the Senate from Delaware, where he had already in 1781 belongs to for a short time.

According to him, the Dickinson College was named.