John Dickinson (November 20, 1732 – February 14, 1808) is an American lawyer and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware.

He is a militia officer during the American Revolution, a Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania and Delaware, a delegate to the U.S.

Constitutional Convention of 1787, President of Delaware and President of Pennsylvania.

Among the wealthiest men in the British American colonies, he is known as the "Penman of the Revolution" for his Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania; upon receiving news of his death, President Thomas Jefferson recognizes him as being "among the first of the advocates for the rights of his country when assailed by Great Britain" whose "name will be consecrated in history as one of the great worthies of the revolution."

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University of Delaware.

December 3, 2009.

Retrieved 2012-06-26.)

He is the namesake of Dickinson College and Penn State University's Dickinson School of Law.