John Dickinson

John Dickinson, (8 Nov 1732 - 14 Feb 1808) was an American Founding Father, attorney and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware. Dickinson was known as the "Penman of the Revolution" for his twelve Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, published individually in 1767 and 1768, and he also wrote "The Liberty Song" in 1768.

As a member of the First Continental Congress, where he signed the Continental Association, Dickinson drafted most of the 1774 Petition to the King, and then, as a member of the Second Continental Congress, wrote the Olive Branch Petition in 1775. Both of these attempts to negotiate with King George III of Great Britain failed. Dickinson also reworked Thomas Jefferson's language to write the final draft of the 1775 Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms.

Copy of a painting by Charles Willson Peale, (15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827)

The creator compiled or maintained the parent series, Photographs of Famous Individuals and Historic Buildings from the Revolutionary Period, between 1935–1939.
Records of Commissions of the Legislative Branch