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Senate Years of Service: 1826-1827 Party: Adams
RODNEY, Daniel, a Representative and a Senator from Delaware; born in Lewes, Sussex County,
Del., September 10, 1764; received a limited schooling; engaged in mercantile pursuits;
associate judge of the court of common pleas 1793-1806; presidential elector on the Federalist
ticket in 1808; Governor of Delaware 1814-1817; elected to the Seventeenth Congress to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of Caesar A. Rodney and served from October 1, 1822, to
March 3, 1823; appointed to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Nicholas Van Dyke and served from November 8, 1826, to January 12, 1827, when a successor
was elected; died in Lewes, Del., September 2, 1846; interment in St. Peters Churchyard.
BibliographyTurner, D.H.B., ed. Rodneys Diary and
Other Delaware Records. Philadelphia: Allen, Lane and Scott, 1911.
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