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Caesar Rodney was an American politician. He was born in 1728 and died in 1784. He was a delegate from Delaware to the Stamp Act Congress at New York in 1765. He was Speaker of the Delaware Assembly from 1769 to 1774, and of the Delaware popular Convention in 1774. He was a member of the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776, was a member of the committee to draft a statement of rights and grievances, and signed the American Declaration of Independence. He served under General George Washington in the Delaware campaign from 1776 to 1777, and was president of Delaware from 1778 to 1782.
Caesar A Rodney was an American politician. He was born in 1772 and died in 1824. He represented Delaware in the US Congress as a Democrat from 1803 to 1805. He was Attorney-General in Jefferson's and Madison's Cabinets from 1807 to 1811. As commissioner to South America in 1817 he advocated the recognition of the Spanish-American republics. He was a US Congressman from 1821 to 1822 and a US Senator from 1822 to 1823. He was appointed Minister to the Argentine provinces in 1823.
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