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== Continental Congress ==

== Continental Congress ==

[[Image:StocktonStatue.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Statue of Richard Stockton at the [[US Capitol]]]]

[[Image:StocktonStatue.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Statue of Richard Stockton at the [[U. S. Capitol]]]]

In September of 1767 he returned to New Jersey, where in 1768 he became a member of the [[Royal Executive Council]] of that colony.<ref name=Lives/><ref name=Signers/><ref name=AOC>Authors unknown. "[http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/stockton.cfm Entry for Richard Stockton]." ''Architect of the Capitol'', 2007. Retrieved June 15, 2007.</ref> Stockton once refused, in writing, to serve as a public official "till I am convinced that by neglecting my own affairs I am doing more acceptable Service to God and Man."<ref name=AOC/> Nevertheless in 1774 he was made a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.<ref name=AOC/> Also in that year, he drafted and set to [[Lord Dartmouth]] a plan for making America a semi-autonomous polity, "independent of [[Parliament]], without renouncing allegiance to the Crown."<ref name=AOC/>

In September of 1767 he returned to New Jersey, where in 1768 he became a member of the [[Royal Executive Council]] of that colony.<ref name=Lives/><ref name=Signers/><ref name=AOC>Authors unknown. "[http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/stockton.cfm Entry for Richard Stockton]." ''Architect of the Capitol'', 2007. Retrieved June 15, 2007.</ref> Stockton once refused, in writing, to serve as a public official "till I am convinced that by neglecting my own affairs I am doing more acceptable Service to God and Man."<ref name=AOC/> Nevertheless in 1774 he was made a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.<ref name=AOC/> Also in that year, he drafted and set to [[Lord Dartmouth]] a plan for making America a semi-autonomous polity, "independent of [[Parliament]], without renouncing allegiance to the Crown."<ref name=AOC/>

== Honors ==

== Honors ==

[[Image:Richard Stockton.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Portrait bust of Richard Stockton in the [[Stockton College]] library]]

[[Image:Richard Stockton.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Portrait bust of Richard Stockton in the [[Stockton College]] library]]

In 1888, New Jersey honored Stockton by donating a statue of him to the [[US Capitol]] [[National Statuary Hall Collection]].<ref name=AOC/> Only six signers of the Declaration of Independence are so represented.

In 1888, New Jersey honored Stockton by donating a statue of him to the [[U. S. Capitol]] [[National Statuary Hall Collection]].<ref name=AOC/> Only six signers of the Declaration of Independence are so represented.

In November of 1968, the New Jersey legislature first approved a bond issue, and in 1969 it passed legislation to establish a college in his honor, the Richard [[Stockton College]] of New Jersey.<ref name=StocktonColl>Authors Unknown. "[http://president.stockton.edu/history.htm A Brief History of the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey]." Office of the President, [[Stockton College]], 2005. Retrieved June 15, 2007.</ref>

In November of 1968, the New Jersey legislature first approved a bond issue, and in 1969 it passed legislation to establish a college in his honor, the Richard [[Stockton College]] of New Jersey.<ref name=StocktonColl>Authors Unknown. "[http://president.stockton.edu/history.htm A Brief History of the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey]." Office of the President, [[Stockton College]], 2005. Retrieved June 15, 2007.</ref>