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Kent County
Delaware

Politicians who were born in Kent County

Kent County (no city given): James Tilton, 1745 — John Patten, 1746 — Dyre Kearney, c.1747 — Henry Molleston, 1762 — Samuel White, 1770 — Eli Saulsbury, 1817 — Willard Saulsbury, Sr., 1820 — Charles du Pont Ridgely, 1878    Camden: Harry A. Richardson, 1853 — Charles L. Terry, Jr., 1900 — Henry J. Ridgely, 1913    Cheswold: J. Caleb Boggs, 1909    Dover: Caesar Rodney, 1728 — John Vining, 1758 — James Sykes, 1761 — Caesar A. Rodney, 1772 — Henry M. Ridgely, 1779 — Thomas M. Rodney, 1800 — Nathaniel B. Smithers, 1818 — William P. Lord, 1839 — George H. Bates, 1845 — John R. Nicholson, 1849 — J. Frank Allee, 1857 — Douglass C. Allee, 1859 — Josiah O. Wolcott, 1877 — James F. Allee, Jr., 1884 — Jesse S. Cooper, Jr., 1899 — Isabel Jackson, 1905    Near Dover: Thomas Rodney, 1744 — Arnold Naudain, 1790 — Joseph P. Comegys, 1813 — William D. Denney, 1873    Duck Creek (now Smyrna): John Cook, 1730 — Thomas Collins, 1732    Farmington: Elmer L. Betts, 1914    Felton: George Truitt, 1756 — James H. Hughes, 1867 — John B. Jester, 1895    Frederica: John W. Hall, 1817 — Albert Fawcett Polk, 1869    Harrington: Samuel C. Hughes, 1860 — Jehu F. Camper, 1897    Near Harrington: Napoleon B. Thistlewood, 1837 — Wilbur E. Jacobs, 1882    Kenton: Allen J. Cook, 1919    Milford: James R. Lofland, 1823 — John W. Causey, 1841 — S. John Abbott, 1852    Rising Sun: J. Allen Frear, Jr., 1903    River Bridges: Thomas Culbreth, 1786    Smyrna: Louis McLane, 1786 — Thomas James Keating, 1829 — Robert J. Reynolds, 1838 — Walter O. Hoffecker, 1854 — Edward A. Miller, 1859 — George M. Blendt, 1895    Near Smyrna: John H. Hoffecker, 1827    Wyoming: Thomas W. Jakes, 1867 — Ralph W. Emerson, 1892     See also Delaware birthplaces not assigned to counties.

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