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Benjamin Rush (January 4, 1746 [ O.S. December 24, 1745] – April 19, 1813) was an American revolutionary, a Founding Father of the United States and signatory to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, educator, and the founder of Dickinson ...
Benjamin Rush, (born Jan. 4, 1746 [Dec. 24, 1745, Old Style], Byberry, near Philadelphia—died April 19, 1813, Philadelphia), American physician and political leader, a member of the Continental Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Benjamin Rush was an American physician, politician and educator who is best known for his activities during the American Revolution and for signing the Declaration of Independence. Rush...
Benjamin Rush (December 24, 1746 - April 19, 1813) was an outspoken figure of the American Enlightenment who not only served alongside Thomas Jefferson in the Continental Congress but became a crusader for the professional practice of medicine, veterinary science, prison reform, education of women and the abolition of slavery in late 18th and ...
Date of Birth - Death December 24, 1745 - April 19, 1813 Share to Google Classroom Added by 32 Educators Like many of the great men of the Revolution, Benjamin Rush was a multi-faceted man: a politician, physician, humanitarian, educator, and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Benjamin Rush, the medical doctor and Founding Father, took after the Renaissance-man civic participation of his mentor, Benjamin Franklin. Charles Willson Peale/Courtesy of Crown He is the...
Rush promoted inoculation against smallpox and was an early advocate of preventive medicine and the simplification of the diagnosis and treatment of disease. His work at the University of Pennsylvania established the reputation of Philadelphia as a center of medicine.
Benjamin Rush was an American revolutionary, a Founding Father of the United States and signatory to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, educator, and the founder of Dickinson College.
Rush on Abolition and Race. Among the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Rush was considered the leading abolitionist as well as the loudest voice confronting racial prejudice against free Blacks. This began with one of the first major antislavery writings by a founder, Rush’s 1773 pamphlet An Address to the inhabitants of the British settlements in ...
Benjamin Rush. Doctor, medical educator, chemist, humanitarian, politician, author, reformer-moralist, soldier, temperance advocate, abolitionist—Benjamin Rush was all of these. One of the younger signers, only 30 years of age at the time, he was already a physician of note. Rush, the fourth of seven children, was born in 1745 at Byberry ...