It's pretty hard to become known as a hero, even harder to be known as one of the heroes of a nation. The man, Caesar Rodney was exactly that, he has been to known to be called the hero of Delaware. Caesar Rodney was a soldier, judge, Speaker of Delaware's Assembly, Governor of Delaware, justice of the state's Supreme Court, and held many other local offices. To say the very least he was a very busy man! Many people may have never heard his name before but have looked at a picture of him when they've paid in change. He is forever immortalized on the Delaware state quarter, with a picture of him on his legendary ride into history.
Caesar Rodney was born on October 7, 1728 to Caesar and Elizabeth Crawford Rodney. He was born on his family's farm in East Dover Hundred, Kent County, Delaware. Caesar Rodney Sr. died in 1745, leaving Caesar the eldest of eight children to be the man of the family farm. At this point a man by the name of Nicholas Ridgely became the legal guardian of......

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