Philemon Dickinson

Philemon Dickinson was an American lawyer and politician from Trenton, New Jersey. As a brigadier general of the New Jersey militia, he was one of the most effective militia officers of the American Revolutionary War. He was also a Continental Congressman from Delaware and a United States Senator from New Jersey.

5 April 1739

Born on the same birth day (5 April): Albert Champion (cyclist) • Aram Mp3 • Arthur Berriedale Keith • Franck Silvestre • Franklin Chang-Díaz • Frederick Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern • Henrik Dettmann • Herbert Bayer • Indrek Tobreluts • Kristof Vandewalle • Linas Pilibaitis • Montgomery Gentry • Pavlo Khnykin • Peter Case • Samuele Preisig • Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet • Sybil Ludington • Tom Riley (actor) • Walter W. Winans • Élisabeth Thérèse of Lorraine