JOHN DICKINSON

1732-1808

Delegate to the Constitutional Convention (Delaware)

Biographical Data
Religious Views
Quotations
References, Links, & Further Reading

Education: read law at Middle Temple

Occupation: lawyer

Political Affiliation:

Organizational Affiliation(s): Mason

Religious Affiliation: Quaker, Episcopalian

Summary of Religious Views:

Views on Religion & Politics:

Quotations:

References, Links, & Further Reading: Books, Articles, Links

Books

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Works by John Dickinson

ed. by Paul Leicester Ford, The Political Writings of John Dickinson, 1764-1774, 1895 Vol. I, alternate site; reprint

Biographies

Milton E. Flower, John Dickinson: Conservative Revolutionary, Univ. Press of Virginia, 1983
Lionel E. Fredman, John Dickinson: American Revolutionary Statesman, Samhar Press, 1974
David Louis Jacobson, John Dickinson and the Revolution in Pennsylvania, 1764-1776, Univ. of California Press, 1965
William Murchison, The Cost of Liberty: The Life of John Dickinson, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2013

Articles

Gregory S. Ahern, "The Spirit of American Constitutionalism: John Dickinson's Fabius Letters," Humanitas, Volume XI, No. 2, 1998
Todd Andrlik, "John Dickinson’s Hit Single: Liberty Song", Journal of the American Revolution, March 12, 2014
Jane E. Calvert, "Liberty Without Tumult: Understanding the Politics of John Dickinson," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. CXXXI, No. 3, July 2007, pp. 233-262
Howard T. Colburn, "John Dickinson, Historical Revolutionary," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 83, July 1959, pp. 271-92
Frank G. Cook, "John Dickinson," Atlantic Monthly, 65, January 1890, pp. 70-83
Benjamin Asher Fogel, "Trimming Liberty's Tree: John Dickinson Before He Was "a Farmer"," Honor's Thesis, Department of History, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2017

Links

Works By John Dickinson

Documents (Constitutional Sources Project)
John Dickinson works (Their Own Words)
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies (The Online Library of Liberty)
Letters from a Farmer II (Hypertext on American History)
Letters from a Farmer IV (Hypertext on American History)

Biographical Sites

DICKINSON, John, 1732-1808 (Biographical Directory of the US Congress)
A Biography of John Dickinson (1732-1808) (Hypertext on American History)
A Biography of John Dickinson (1732-1808) - 2 (Hypertext on American History)
John Dickinson (National Archives -- The Founding Fathers)
John Dickinson (Soldier-Statesmen of the Constitution -- Center of Military History, United States Army)
John Dickinson: A Great Worthy of the Revolution (Delaware)
John Dickinson (Their Own Words)
Who is John Dickinson? (John Dickinson Plantation)
John Dickinson Plantation