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Edward Rutledge, at the age of 26, was the youngest of the signers. Despite his youth, he had already made a name for himself in South Carolina as a lawyer-politician and had assumed leadership of his congressional delegation. A moderate, he at first fought against the independence resolution but finally submitted to the majority and voted for it.
29 de ene. de 2020 · Edward Rutledge was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Rutledge traveled to England for his education and studied law at Middle Temple. Rutledge then returned to Charleston where he began a law practice with fellow founding father Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.
18 de may. de 2012 · Edward Rutledge (November 23, 1749 – January 23, 1800) was an American politician and one of the youngest signers of the United States Declaration of Independence. He served alongside fellow South Carolina colony delegates Thomas Heyward, Thomas Lynch Jr ., and Arthur Middleton.
Edward Rutledge ( Charleston, South Carolina, 23 november 1749 - aldaar, 23 januari 1800) was een Amerikaans politicus en ondertekenaar van de Amerikaanse Onafhankelijkheidsverklaring, de Declaration of Independence . Rutledge werd in Charleston geboren als de broer van John Rutledge, een latere ondertekenaar van de Amerikaanse Grondwet.
After the signing, Edward returned home to South Carolina to help defend his state. In the spring of 1780, the British captured him during the siege of Charleston, and he served a year as a prisoner of war in Florida. Since the entire Rutledge family supported independence, the British also imprisoned his mother, Sarah Hext Rutledge, in Charleston.
1 de sept. de 2021 · Edward Rutledge was born into an aristocratic South Carolina family on 23 November 1749 in Charleston. He was the youngest of the seven children of John Rutledge and Sarah Hext. John Rutledge was a successful Charleston Physician who had emigrated from Ireland about 1735. Sarah Hext was “a lady of respectable family, and large fortune.”
Rutledge, Edward. RUTLEDGE, EDWARD. (1749–1800). Member of Continental Congress and U.S. House of Representative, Signer, governor of South Carolina.Born in Christ Church Parish, South Carolina on 23 November 1749, Rutledge studied law with his elder brother, John Rutledge, entered the Middle Temple in 1767, and was admitted to the English bar in 1772.
