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	John Dickinson (lawyer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		John Dickinson (November 13, 1732 - February 14, 1808), the "Penman of the Revolution", was a conservative Philadelphia lawyer, known for urging reconciliation instead of revolution, for which he was later vilified.
		Dickinson was born to a tobacco-farming family in Talbot County, Maryland.
		In 1741 Dickinson's father moved the family to Kent County, Delaware (then part of the Lower Three Counties of Pennsylvania.) Dickinson was tutored at home, and at the age of 18 began studying law under John Moland of Philadelphia.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /John_Dickinson_%28lawyer%29 (833 words)

	John Dickinson (delegate) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Dickinson was tutored at home, and at the age of 18 began studying law under John Moland of Philadelphia.
		Dickinson was a member of the Court party in the Lower Counties and the Proprietary Party in the Province, as Pennsylvania was known.
		Dickinson was elected to represent Kent County in the Assembly of the Lower Counties in the 1759/60 and [1760/61 sessions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Dickinson_%28lawyer%29 (2229 words)

	John Dickinson (lawyer)
		John Dickinson (November 13, 1732 - February 14, 1808),the "Penman of the Revolution", was a conservative Philadelphia lawyer, known for urging reconciliationinstead of revolution, for which he was later vilified.
		In 1741 Dickinson's father moved the family to Kent County, Delaware (then part of the Lower ThreeCounties of Pennsylvania.) Dickinson was tutored at home, and at the age of18 began studying law under JohnMoland of Philadelphia.
		Dickinson resigned as President of Delaware and served asPresident of Pennsylvania from November 7, 1782 until October 18, 1785.
	www.therfcc.org /john-dickinson-lawyer--46529.html (775 words)

	BookRags: John Dickinson Biography
		John Dickinson was born Nov. 13, 1732, in Talbot County, Md., the son of a judge.
		In England, Dickinson studied the authorities, heard cases argued, and visited the theater and the family of Pennsylvania proprietor Thomas Penn. He took his law degree in 1757 and returned to America with the disillusioned view that Parliament was a school for corrupt bargainers of meager talents.
		Dickinson was sent to the Annapolis Convention and was a Delaware delegate to the Federal Convention in 1787.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/john-dickinson (972 words)

	Dickinson's Letters from a Farmer
		John Dickinson's most famous writings have their genesis with the Revenue Act of 1764 that raised duties on sugar.
		Dickinson himself blamed the New England colonies for escalating affairs to undignified violence and held the fleeting opinion later that Boston had brought its troubles on itself.
		Nevertheless, the eventual result was the calling of the Continental Congress and the unity of purpose that John Dickinson had advocated, though certainly not in the directions that he had argued in his letters and would continue to argue at the Congress.
	deila.dickinson.edu /theirownwords/context/0004.htm (884 words)

	Philadelphia Reflections: John Dickinson, Quaker Hamlet
		Dickinson, however, studied at the London Inns of Court for four years, and was by far the most distinguished lawyer in North America for the rest of his life.
		Dickinson had been the organizer and chairman of the two main Pennsylvania military organizations, the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety and Defense, and the so-called Associators (today's 111th Infantry, the first battalion of troops in Philadelphia).
		John Dickinson was known as the "Penman of the Revolution" in his day because of his persuasive arguments, but the hotheads never grasped his wise advice that the King would be more persuaded by economic pressures on his merchants than by Colonials shooting his Redcoats.
	www.philadelphia-reflections.com /reflections.php?content=blogs_alpha/john_dickinson_quaker.html (773 words)

	Dickinson College
		John Dickinson, known as the "Penman of the Revolution," was the Governor of Pennsylvania in 1783 when Dickinson College received its charter.
		The John Dickinson Scholarship, worth $60,000 of tuition support for eight semesters of full-time study at the college, is Dickinson's highest recognition for academic achievement and leadership.
		John Montgomery, born in 1727, was one of Dickinson's three original founders and a U.S. congressman.
	www.dickinson.edu /admit/scholarjdsbrs.html (438 words)

	Emily Dickinson's Collections - Etext Conversion project - Nalanda Digital Library
		Dickinson's decision to follow the advise was influenced by her ambivalent attitude toward the conventions of the nineteenth-century literary marketplace and her desire to shape more intimate relations with chosen contemporaries.
		Dickinson's imagery reflects an intense and painful struggle over many years, her verse is full of allusions to volcanoes, shipwrecks, funerals, and other manifestations of natural and human violence, which she hide into her writings.
		Dickinson read poetry voraciously and called poets "the dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of soul." Judith Farr have pointed out that she spoke of the soul or souls 141 in her poems.
	www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/emilydickinson/emily.html (873 words)

	American Revolution - The Founding Fathers, John Dickinson, Delaware
		Dickinson, "Penman of the Revolution," was born in 1732 at Crosiadore estate, near the village of Trappe in Talbot County, MD. He was the second son of Samuel Dickinson, the prosperous farmer, and his second wife, Mary (Cadwalader) Dickinson.
		In 1767-68 Dickinson wrote a series of newspaper articles in the Pennsylvania Chronicle that came to be known collectively as Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania.
		Dickinson came out of retirement to take a seat in the Continental Congress (1779-80), where he signed the Articles of Confederation; earlier he had headed the committee that had drafted them.
	www.americanrevolution.com /JohnDickinson.htm (923 words)

	John Dickinson (lawyer) - InformationBlast
		In 1761 Dickinson began service in the Pennsylvania Assembly, and served in both the Pennsylvania and Delaware Assemblies simultaneously after 1762.
		Dickinson's defense in the Pennsylvania legislature against Benjamin Franklin's fruitless efforts to abolish proprietary colonial government caused him to lose his seat in Pennsylvania in 1764 (although he maintained his seat in Delaware.
		Dickinson supported the Penn family's inherited claim to broad executive powers in the colony, a matter as fundamental to the slaveholding Quaker Dickinson as the inviolability of personal property.
	www.informationblast.com /John_Dickinson_%28lawyer%29.html (866 words)

	Dickinson, John - De. Past Governor
		John Dickinson was born the second son of Samuel & Mary (Cadwalader) Dickinson on November 13, 1732, near the village of Trappe in Talbot County, Md. In 1741 his father moved the family to Kent County, De., near Dover.
		In 1771, Dickinson returned to the Pennsylvania legislature and drafted a petition to the King of England that was unanimously approved.
		Dickinson died at his home in Wilmington on February 14, 1808, at the age of 75 and was interred in the Friends Burial Ground in Wilmington, De.
	www.russpickett.com /history/dicknbio.htm (1811 words)

	Delegates to the Constitutional Convention: John Dickinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Dickinson has been famed through all America, for his Farmer Letters; he is a Scholar, and said to be a Man of very extensive information.
		Biography from the National Archives: Dickinson, "Penman of the Revolution," was born in 1732 at Crosiadore estate, near the village of Trappe in Talbot County, Maryland.
		In 1767-68, Dickinson wrote a series of newspaper articles in the Pennsylvania Chronicle that came to be known collectively as "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania." They attacked British taxation policy and urged resistance to unjust laws, but also emphasized the possibility of a peaceful resolution.
	www.teachingamericanhistory.com /convention/delegates/dickinson.html (1084 words)

	U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee
		In 1759, the 27-year-old Dickinson was elected to the Delaware Assembly.
		Dickinson was not returned for a third year but was replaced by his neighbor, Caesar Rodney (whose dash to Philadelphia in 1776 to vote for independence was recently commemorated on the "Delaware quarter").
		John Dickinson had refused to vote for the Declaration of Independence, but within hours of its adoption Colonel John Dickinson led a company of Philadelphia militiamen on a march into New Jersey to answer that State's urgent call for military assistance.
	www.senate.gov /~rpc/releases/1999/fg091799.htm (1837 words)

	The American Revolution (John Dickinson)
		John Dickinson was an American Statesman and member of the Pennsylvania Assembly, the Continental Congress and Federal Constitutional Conventions.
		Dickinson wrote the resolves of the committee of Pennsylvania, and their instructions to their representatives.
		Dickinson was of that manly nature which does not permit the statesman to sanction a measure simply because it chances to be popular, but holds him to what seems to tend to the best interests of the country.
	theamericanrevolution.org /ipeople/jdick.asp (933 words)

	John Dickinson (lawyer) - The Jiggies Reference Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		John Dickinson (1732 - 1808), the "Penman of the Revolution", was a conservative Philadelphia lawyer, known for urging reconciliation instead of revolution, for which he was later vilified.
		Dickinson came from a tobacco-farming family that had moved from Maryland to the Lower Counties of Pennsylvania (now Delaware).
		But Dickinson urged conciliation, even as a member of the two consecutive Continental Congresses and when presented with the Declaration of Independence, he couldn't bring himself to sign it, a hesitation for which more radical American elements vilified him.
	www.jiggies.com /reference/John_Dickinson_(lawyer) (338 words)

	At The Bar - Issue 24, October 2003
		STROLL into the Liverpool offices of Hill Dickinson and the first thing you see is a board on which staff must enter their names if they are intending to be in the building after 1800hrs.
		John assures her that Wengen is booked, and tells me that with direct flights from Liverpool he can easily indulge his love of skiing.
		John is happy that today he has received confirmation that Hill Dickinson has received accreditation so that local clients can get a forty per cent grant from the EU for key aspects of legal advice in Liverpool.
	www.maritimeadvocate.com /i24_atth.php (824 words)

	JOHNDICKINSON
		Contact US Dickinson, John (1732-1808) Writer, Political Leader: Dickinson was born in Maryland and raised in Delaware.
		Called the "penman of the Revolution," Dickinson protested the Townshend Acts in a series of 12 anonymous letters to the Philadelphia Chronicle entitled Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania.
		Dickinson later served as a delegate to the First Continental Congress, helped draft the Articles of Confederation, fought against British troops in New Jersey, and was elected to the Congress in 1779.
	www.multied.com /Bio/RevoltBIOS/DickinsonJohn.html (189 words)

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		In the third gubernatorial election, John Jeremiah Jacob, the first West Virginian governor to be born within its boarders, and third governor of the state, was able to begin the reform process of the state’s constitution.
		John Jeremiah Jacob’s father, Captain John J. Jacob, was a Methodist minister, and the oldest magistrate of the county court.
		John Jeremiah Jacob was the third governor of West Virginia, but the first to ease the political confusion caused by the Civil War and the political diversity in its fifty counties.
	www.dickinson.edu /~burgera/biography.doc (1772 words)

	The Philadelphia Lawyer - Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Lawyers' offices were in their homes, usually within walking distance of the courts located at Fifth and Chestnut streets.
		Lawyers in the antebellum era left something to be desired when dealing with a moral issue that had adverse economic consequences.
		Philadelphia lawyer William A. Schnader, a protégé of William Draper Lewis, in 1922 became a special deputy to the attorney general of Pennsylvania for the express purpose of drafting the legislation necessary to carry out the reorganization of the state government.
	www.philadelphiabar.org /page/TPLWinter02ThisIsOurBar?appNum=2&wosid=dFdfEaGabKlZdIHJS33VH0 (11086 words)

	Term Paper on john dickinson
		John Dickinson John Dickinson, born on November 13, 1732, was raised with an excellent educational background with would later bring him into politics.
		John was born the second son of Samuel and Mary Dickinson near the village of Trappe in Talbot County, Maryland.
		John then continued his education at London’s Middle Temple, and was admitted to the Delaware Bar.
	www.swiftpapers.com /essay/john_dickinson-20011.html (167 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Townshend Acts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Eventually, John Dickinson (1732-1808) raised support to repeal the Townshend Acts by a series of 12 letters addressing himself as "The Farmer".
		James Otis (February 5, 1725 â€“ May 23, 1783) was a lawyer in colonial Massachusetts who was an early advocate of the political views that led to the American Revolution.
		The list of John Dickinsons: John Dickinson (lawyer), (1732 – 1808), was a conservative Philadelphia lawyer, known for urging reconciliation instead of revolution, for which he was later vilified.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Townshend-Acts (843 words)

	John Dickinson
		John Dickinson lived one of the most extraordinary political lives of all of the founding fathers.
		Dickinson joined politics as a member of the Pennsylvania assembly in 1764, proceeded with the Stamp Act Congress in 1765 where he drafted the Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress.
		Dickinson was elected again to the Continental Congress in 1779, then to the Delaware Assembly in 1780.
	www.ushistory.org /declaration/related/dickinson.htm (480 words)

	Emily Dickinson
		Emily Dickinson was an American lyrical poet, and an obsessively private writer -- only seven of her some 1800 poems were published during her lifetime.
		Dickinson withdrew from social contact at the age of 23 and devoted herself in secret into writing.
		Dickinson was born in 1830 at Amherst, Massachusetts, to a family well known for educational and political activity.
	www.literacyrules.com /WebDesign/110webs/thienthanh/thienthanh.htm (393 words)

	Delegates to the Constitutional Convention: Delaware
		He prospered as a lawyer and planter, and eventually came to own not only Bohemia Manor, but homes in Dover and Wilmington as well.
		Meantime, the struggle between the colonies and the mother country had waxed strong and Dickinson had emerged in the forefront of Revolutionary thinkers.
		Like his friend John Dickinson, he was willing to protect colonial rights but was wary of extremism.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/marrydelaware.html (2581 words)

	James Buchanan, class of 1809
		He found the school to be in "wretched condition" with "no efficient discipline." However, his own behavior while at Dickinson was far from exemplary; he was expelled during the fall vacation of 1808 for bad behavior.
		John King (a college trustee), Buchanan was readmitted to Dickinson.
		In Congress, Buchanan was an active opponent of John Quincy Adams and the Panama Mission.
	chronicles.dickinson.edu /encyclo/b/ed_BuchananJ.html (499 words)

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	John Dickinson Writings and Biography
		In 1753 Dickinson went to England to continue his studies at London's Middle Temple.
		In 1771, Dickinson returned to the Pennsylvania legislature and drafted a petition to the king that was unanimously approved.
		At the same time, he chaired a Philadelphia committee of safety and defense and held a colonelcy in the first battalion recruited in Philadelphia to defend the city.
	www.lexrex.com /bios/jdickinson.htm (927 words)

	James Wilson
		Honorary M.A. from Philadelphia College, studied Law with John Dickinson.
		James Wilson was born in Scotland in 1742.
		Wilson managed to secure studies at the office of John Dickinson a short time later.
	www.ushistory.org /declaration/signers/wilson.htm (795 words)

	Dickinson State University - Dickinson State Digest
		But all is not as it seems and sometimes the right choices aren’t as right as they seem and the play culminates with a hidden and powerful message in a dramatic ending sequence that will grip the audience long after the performance’s conclusion.
		The story of a young lawyer and his wife who choose to celebrate their 10th anniversary at the townhouse of a deputy New York City mayor and his wife.
		The witch coven gives John human form to woo and marry Barbara on the condition that she remain true to him for one year.
	www.dickinsonstate.com /digest.asp?ArticleID=660 (677 words)

	Adams, John, 2d President of the United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		John Adams and his wife, Abigail Adams, founded one of the most distinguished families of the United States; their son, John Quincy Adams, was also President.
		A plain-spoken lawyer, scrupulously honest and dauntingly erudite, Adams emerged into politics as an opponent of the Stamp Act and, after moving to Boston, was a leader in the Revolutionary group opposing the British measures that were to lead to the American Revolution.
		A definitive edition of the voluminous writings of the Adams family was begun with four volumes (1961) containing the diary and autobiography of John Adams.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ad/Adams-Jo.html (766 words)

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