v t e John Dickinson
5th President of Pennsylvania, 1782–1785 5th President of Delaware, 1781–1783 Second Continental Congress, 1775–1776, 1779–1781 First Continental Congress, 1774 Stamp Act Congress, 1765
Founding of the United States	Declaration of Rights and Grievances (1765) Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1767, 1768) "The Liberty Song" (1768 United we stand, divided we fall) Petition to the King (1774) Signee, Continental Association (1774) Pennsylvania Committee of Correspondence (1774–1776) "Letter to the inhabitants of the Province of Quebec" (1774) Olive Branch Petition (1775) Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (co-wrote, 1775) Committee of Secret Correspondence (1775–1776) Model Treaty committee (1776) Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union (1776, drafting committee chairman) President, Annapolis Convention (1786) Delegate, Constitutional Convention (1787)
Other events	Brigadier General, Pennsylvania militia Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783 Delaware Constitution of 1792
Life and homes	Mary Norris Dickinson (wife) Philemon Dickinson (brother) Early life Poplar Hall home Fair Hill estate Friends Burial Ground
Legacy	Dickinson College Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University John Dickinson High School 1776 (1969 musical, 1972 film) John Adams (2008 miniseries) Sons of Liberty (2015 miniseries)
Related	Claymont Stone School American Revolution patriots Founding Fathers

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