Philemon Dickinson
 Philemon Dickinson (April 5 1739 – February 4 1809) was an American lawyer and politician from Trenton New Jersey. As a brigadier general of the New Jersey militia he was one of the most effective militia officers of the American Revolutionary War. He was also a Continental Congressman from Delaware and a United States Senator from New Jersey.Dickinson was born in Maryland. When he was one his family moved to Delaware.