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The Delaware quarter dollar depicts Caesar Rodney astride a galloping horse. The selection received the highest number of votes in a public poll by Gov. Thomas R. Carper.

Rodney was a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1776 and voted for independence after riding 80 miles on horseback to cast his vote in time. The native of Dover held more public offices than any other Delaware citizen before or since. He was a soldier, judge, speaker of Delaware's Assembly and held other local offices.