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Dr. Benjamin Rush

From the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Portrait Collection [V88]. 

Rush was one of the American Founding Fathers.  Born in Byberry, Pennsylvania, Rush was an influential physician, educator, politician, and humanitarian.  He was a professor of chemistry and medicine at the College of Philadelphia and later the University of Pennsylvania, a member of the Continental Congress, signer of the Declaration of Independence, surgeon general of the Continental Army, and founder of Dickinson College.