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Caesar Rodney, (born October 7, 1728, Dover, Delaware [U.S.]—died June 26, 1784, Dover), delegate to the Continental Congress (1774–76, 1777–78), “president” of Delaware (1778–82), and key signer of the Declaration of Independence. Rodney had served as high sheriff of Kent county, Delaware (1755), and as a delegate to the Stamp Act ...

The Library of Congress. He was a founding father, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and an American hero—but most have probably not heard of Caesar Rodney or his dramatic 18-hour ...

Rodney was a signer of the Declaration of Independence who would go on to be President of Delaware from December, 1777, to November, 1781. Like Paul Revere, Caesar Rodney is famous for a midnight ride. Rodney's ride ended up at the doorstep of Independence Hall where he cast the decisive Delaware vote for Independence.

March 2, 2020. Caesar Rodney was a Delaware lawyer, representative of Delaware in the Continental Congress, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Rodney managed to be a soldier, politician, and good patriot all at the same time. He spent his life fighting for the Independence of his country, so that the children may have a better ...

The president declared Wednesday that Caesar Rodney, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, should be honored in the National Garden of American Heroes — a move less about Rodney and more...