Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
Biography
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 well." He served as Surgeon General of the Middle Department of the Continental Army and became a professor of chemistry, medical theory, and clinical practice at the University of Pennsylvania.
Occupation
Benjamin Rush is recorded as a university teacher, a chemist, a psychiatrist, a politician, a physician and a writer, born in Pennsylvania (1746–1813).
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Benjamin Rush was born in Byberry, Pennsylvania in 1746. Explore other notable figures from Pennsylvania, historic sites connected to this era, and the full colonial and statehood history of the state using the links below.
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