Benjamin Rush
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title:
Benjamin Rush
text:
Benjamin Rush was an American revolutionary, a Founding Father of the United States and signatory to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, educator, and the founder of Dickinson College. Rush was a Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress. He later described his efforts in support of the American Revolution, saying: "He aimed right." He served as surgeon general of the Continental Ar
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American Founding Father, physician, educator (1746–1813)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Rush
date created:
2003-07-04T09:25:33Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T02:45:20Z
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