The Most Prominent Politicians from Delaware

Filed in Delaware by on June 6, 2011

Erik Loomis over at Lawyers, Guns and Money is working on a project to identify the most prominent politicians from each state. He is working on this in order of admission to the Union, which means that a survey of Delaware’s politicians is up first in this task. And he finds the list of Delaware locals to be “pathetic” or “underwhelming”. Hmmm. I’d probably agree with that. Anyway, his list includes (you have to hit up his post to see his justification and context, there’s too much to reasonably repost here):

1. Joe Biden
2. William Roth
3. Thomas Bayard
4. Honorable Mentions:

By any rights, none. But given the fact that Bayard is #3, we might consider Caesar Rodney (Attorney General under Jefferson and the obscure man on the Delaware quarter), John Clayton (Secretary of State under Zachary Taylor), and that’s about it.

Ouch!

Who did he miss? John Dickenson seems like he should go on this list.

And if you go over there to represent, keep it civil over there…..

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  1. Delaware Dem says:
    June 6, 2011 at 1:45 pm

    Dickinson, McKean, Rodney, and then a whole lot of nothing until Biden.

    Yeah, I agree with that.

  2. Mitch Crane says:
    June 6, 2011 at 1:46 pm

    Dickinson could equally be claimed by Pennsylvania, where he was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and was President.

    Louis McClane (sp?) was Secretary of State under Andrew Jackson.

  3. Delaware Dem says:
    June 6, 2011 at 1:49 pm

    We’ve got a couple politicians currently serving that could join this list. The future could see a President Markell and a long serving Senator Coons.

  4. nemski says:
    June 6, 2011 at 2:38 pm

    Abolitionist Thomas Garrett could be on that list, though more of an activist than a politician.

  5. Johnny Longtorso says:
    June 6, 2011 at 2:46 pm

    Delaware’s most famous politician, Christine O’Donnell!

  6. Jason330 says:
    June 6, 2011 at 3:02 pm

    I keep wondering who the hell the GOP plans on running in all these statewide races…

  7. reis says:
    June 6, 2011 at 4:05 pm

    RUTHY!!!

  8. Unstable Isotope says:
    June 6, 2011 at 7:18 pm

    Why not Mike Castle? He’s now very famous for losing to Christine O’Donnell.

  9. cassandra_m says:
    June 6, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    I definitely think that Thomas Garrett would be more of an activist — he never held a political office and was prosecuted for his Underground Railroad activity.

    COD is probably more notorious than really famous. I saw Lewis Black some weeks back at the Grand and he asked the audience about COD — then told the crowd that Delaware should lose its statehood for a year for letting her run.

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