Thomas Rodney was an American lawyer and politician from Jones Neck in St Jones Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, and Natchez, Mississippi.
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Thomas Rodney was a Continental Congressman from Delaware, and a member of the Democratic-Republican Party who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, and as federal judge for the Mississippi Territory.
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Thomas Rodney was the younger brother of Caesar Rodney, Revolutionary President of Delaware.
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Thomas Rodney was the son of Caesar and Mary Crawford Rodney, and grandson of William Rodney, who came to America in the 1680s and had been Speaker of the Colonial Assembly of the Lower Counties in 1704.
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Thomas Rodney's mother was the daughter of the Rev Thomas Crawford, Anglican priest at Dover.
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Thomas Rodney's father died in 1745, when he was an infant, and his much older brother, Caesar Thomas Rodney, became much involved in his rearing and education.
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Thomas Rodney was very active in local politics, as well as the broader range of those elements affecting Delaware as whole.
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Thomas Rodney was a Colonel in the county's militia, and was involved in a number of actions during the American Revolutionary War.
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In 1774 Thomas Rodney was a delegate to the state convention that elected his brother Caesar to be their delegate to the Continental Congress.
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Meanwhile, Thomas Rodney was named to the state's Committee of Safety.
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Thomas Rodney in turn was sent as a delegate to the Congress in 1781 and 1782.
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Thomas Rodney was elected to the Congress annually from 1785 to 1787, but attended sessions only in 1786.
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On December 17,1802, Thomas Rodney became an associate justice of Delaware's Supreme Court.
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Thomas Rodney resigned since President Jefferson appointed him as the chief justice for the Mississippi Territory where he doubled as a land commissioner of the district west of Pearl River.
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Thomas Rodney bought land in what was then Jefferson County, Mississippi, and moved to Natchez to assume his new duties as the senior federal judge for the Mississippi Territory from 1803 to 1811.