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==Attorney general== [[File:Caesar A Rodney US.jpg|200px|left|thumb]] On January 20, 1807, U.S. President [[Thomas Jefferson]] named Rodney his U.S. Attorney General. He served in that office for the remainder of Jefferson's term and for nearly three years in President [[James Madison]]'s first term. As Attorney General, Rodney participated as a member of the prosecution during the second [[treason]] trial of former Vice President [[Aaron Burr]]. Rodney resigned December 5, 1811, unhappy about being passed over for a U.S. Supreme Court appointment. During the [[War of 1812]], he was captain of a rifle corps which became the Delaware 1st Artillery. They served at Fort Union in Wilmington, on the [[Canada|Canadian]] frontier, and assisted in the defense of [[Baltimore]] in 1814.
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