John & Edward Rutledge of South Carolina

John & Edward Rutledge of South Carolina

Author: James Haw

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780820318592

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John Rutledge (1739-1800) was a wealthy planter and successful lawyer, a leader in South Carolina's colonial Commons House of Assembly, and a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses. As chief executive of the state during most of the War for Independence, he was instrumental in its defense and recovery after the British conquest of 1780. One of the leading delegates to the United States constitutional convention in 1787, he served as chief justice of South Carolina, and briefly as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.