Caesar Augustus Rodney (4 January 1772 – 10 June 1824) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Delaware's at-large district from 4 March 1803 to 3 March 1805 (succeeding James A. Bayard and preceding James M. Broom) and from 4 March 1821 to 24 January 1822 (succeeding Willard Hall and preceding Daniel Rodney). He then served as US Attorney General from 20 January 1807 to 5 December 1811 (succeeding John Breckinridge and preceding William Pinkney) and as a US Senator from Delaware from 24 January 1822 to 29 January 1823 (succeeding Outerbridge Horsey and preceding Thomas Clayton). He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party.
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Caesar Augustus Rodney was born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1772, the nephew of Caesar Rodney. In 1793, Rodney became a lawyer, and he served in the State House of Representatives from 1797 to 1802 and in the US House of Representatives from 1803 to 1805. In 1807, President Thomas Jefferson named Rodney his Attorney General, serving until the end of Jefferson's term. However, he resigned in 1811 after being passed over for a US Supreme Court nomination, and he fought in the War of 1812. He returned to the US Congress as a US Senator from 1822 to 1823, and he died in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1824 while serving as ambassador.