Caesar Rodney

Statue of Rodney at the National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol.

English: Caesar Rodney (October 7, 1728–June 26, 1784) was a lawyer and politician born in the Delaware Colony of British America. He was an officer of Delaware's militia during the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, a Continental Congressman, a signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and President (i.e. governor) of Delaware during most of the American Revolution.

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  Rodney, from J. Thomas Scharf's History of Delaware.
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  Rodney, depicted on one of the 50 State Quarters.
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  Monument to Rodney in the Christ Episcopal Churchyard in Dover, Delaware.