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John Rutledge Jr. (1766 – September 1, 1819) was a United States representative from South Carolina. Born in Charles Town in the Province of South Carolina, he was a son of John Rutledge, who was President of South Carolina, Governor of South Carolina, a Continental Congressman, Philadelphia Convention Framer of the United States ...
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John Rutledge, Jr., was born in 1766 in Charlestown, South Carolina, the eldest son of John Rutledge and Elizabeth Grimke.3 It was taken for granted that young John should follow a public career and no ex-pense was spared in affording him the necessary preparation. During the years 1787-1790 he traveled in Europe, tarrying in France and Great
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Pre-Revolutionary War
In mid-1765 Rutledge was appointed a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress. This congress produced a resolution that stated that it was "the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them but with their own consent, given personally, or by their representatives." Rutledge chaired a committee that drew up a petition to the House of Lords, and he was responsible for the removal of a concession that acknowledged the British Parliament’s right to impose taxes on trade. When the dele...
President of South Carolina
John Rutledge continued to serve in the First Continental Congress and the Second Continental Congressuntil 1776. That year, he was elected President of South Carolina under a constitution drawn up on March 26, 1776. Upon taking office, he worked quickly to arrange the new government and to prepare defenses in case of a British attack. In June 1776, Rutledge learned that a large British naval force was moving toward Charleston. In response, he ordered the construction of Fort Sullivan (now Fo...
Governor of South Carolina
In 1779, Rutledge was elected to head the government of South Carolina under a revision of the new constitution. Governor Rutledge sent a detachment of troops under Gen. Benjamin Lincoln into Georgia to harass the British. The new British commander, General Jacques Prevost, learned what Rutledge was trying to do and sent 2500 troops toward Charleston. When Rutledge heard about the British, he hurried back to Charleston and to build up defenses. In spite of Rutledge’s efforts, when General Pre...
A few weeks after leaving the governorship, Rutledge was again elected to the Continental Congress, where he served until 1783. In 1784, he was appointed to the South Carolina Court of Chancery.
After his rejection as Chief Justice, two suicide attempts, and staving off financial ruin with the help of his brothers, Rutledge began to recover from his depression but his physical health remained shaky. He felt well enough in 1798 to run for a vacancy in the Charleston's delegation to the state House of Representatives. He won unopposed and se...
In 1858, more than 60 years after Rutledge’s brief term of service, the bust of the second chief justice joined those of others with that title in the U.S. Capitol’s Supreme Court Chamber. The Supreme Court of the United States–which moved from the Capitol to a building of its own in 1935–replicated the Rutledge bust for its collection in 1976. One...
Ferris, Robert G., and James H. Charleton. The Signers of the Constitution. Arlington, Va: Interpretive Publications, 1986. ISBN 0936478101Flanders, Henry. The Lives and Times of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Legare Street Press, 2022. ISBN 978-1018703398Fradin, Dennis B., and Michael McCurdy. The Founders: The 39 Stories Behind the U.S. Constitution. New York: Walker, 2005. ISBN 0802789722Hartley, Cecil B. Heroes and Patriots of the South. Kessinger Publishing, 2008 (original 1860). ISBN 1436869560All links retrieved November 29, 2022. 1. SCIway Biography of John Rutledge 2. John Rutledge Law.jrank.org. 3. John Rutledge Portraits in Revolution 4. John Rutledge House Inn 5. John Rutledge Oyez 6. John Rutledge National Park Service 7. John Rutledge South Carolina U.S. Army Center of Military History 8. John Rutledge Find a Grave
11 de ago. de 2023 · John Rutledge September 17, 1739–July 23, 1800 — Patriot He is important because he participated in key events that shaped the American Revolution, including the Stamp Act Congress, First Continental Congress, Second Continental Congress, and Constitutional Convention.
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11 de abr. de 2022 · John Rutledge, Jr., South Carolina Federalist, 1766-1819. by. Ratzlaff, Robert K. Publication date. 1982. Topics. Rutledge, John, Jr., 1766-1819, United States. Congress. House -- Biography, United States.
5 de abr. de 2024 · John Rutledge was an American legislator who, as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, strongly supported the protection of slavery and the concept of a strong central government, a position then possible, but paradoxical in later times when slavery’s defenders sheltered behind the.
14 de may. de 2018 · Rutledge, John. RUTLEDGE, JOHN. (1739–1800). Member of the Continental Congress, governor of South Carolina. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1739, Rutledge studied law in Charleston before entering the Middle Temple in 1754, being admitted to the English bar in 1760.
