Benjamin Rush (December 24, 1745 – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived in the state of Pennsylvania and was a physician, writer, educator, humanitarian and a devout Christian, as well as the founder of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He was also an early opposer of slavery and capital punishment. Rush was a signatory of the Declaration of Independence and attended the Continental Congress, and he was a Pennsylvania Representative.

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• BA at NJ College Princeton, MD (physician) at U of Edinburgh, Signatory of Declaration of Independence

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Rush