John & Edward Rutledge of South Carolina

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John & Edward Rutledge of South Carolina is written by James Haw and published by University of Georgia Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0820318590 (ISBN 10) and 9780820318592 (ISBN 13).

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.