The struggle between the colonies and England had worsened in the debates over the Stamp Act . That year, 1765, he wrote "The Late Regulations Respecting the British Colonies... Considered," an influential pamphlet that urged Americans to seek rep

Despite Dickinson's actions, he served in the American revolutionary militia, becoming one of only two contemporary congressional members who entered military service being given the rank of Brigadier General in the Pennsylvania militia. He was elected as the Governor of Pennsylvania where he served through 1785.

Dickinson chaired a Philadelphia committee of safety and defense and held the rank of colonel in the first battalion recruited in Philadelphia to defend the city. After the battles of Lexington and Concord, he continued to hope for a peaceful solution to the conflicts between the colonies and England, and in 1775, he served in the Second Continental Congress. As a delegate to the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, Dickinson was in Philadelphia during the earl

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