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See also:RUTLEDGE, See also:JOHN (1739—1800) , See also:American jurist and politician; was See also:born in See also:Charleston, See also:South Carolina, in 1739. He studied See also:law' in See also:London and began to practise in Charleston in 1761. He was a delegate to. the See also:Stamp See also:Act See also:Congress in 1765, and to the See also:Continental Congress in 1774—77 and 1782—83; he was See also:chair-See also:man of the See also:committee which framed the See also:state 'constitution of 1776, and the first "See also:president" (See also:governor) of South Carolina in 1776'18. Disapproving of certain changes in the constitution, he resigned in 1778, but was elected governor in the following See also:year, and served until 1782. From 1784 to 1789 he was a member of the state See also:court of See also:chancery. In the Constitutional See also:Convention of 1787 he urged that the president and the Federal See also:judges should be chosen by the See also:national legislature; and prefer-ably by the See also:Senate alone, and that 'the.. pre'sident'Should be chosen for a See also:term of seven years, and should be ineligible to succeed himself. Rutledge championed the Constitution' in the South Carolina convention by which that See also:instrument was adopted on behalf of the state He was See also:associate See also:justice of the See also:United States Supreme Court in 1789—91,. and See also:chief justice of the supreme court of South Carolina in 1791—95. Nominated chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1795'; he presided during the See also:August term, but the Senate refused to confirm the nomination, apparently because of his opposition to the See also:Jay Treaty. His mind failed See also:late in 1795, and he died in Charleston on the 23rd of See also:July 1800.
His See also:brother, See also:EDWARD RUTLEDGE (1749—1800), a signer of the See also:Declaration of See also:Independence, was born in Charleston on the 23rd of See also:November 1949. He studied law in his brother's See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, and iii-London in 1769--73, and began to practise in Charleston in 11793 He served in the Continental Congress in 1774—77, and was serly with John See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams and See also:Benjamin See also:Franklin to confer on, teims of. See also:peace with See also:Lord See also:Howe on Staten See also:Island in See also:September- 1776. As See also:captain of See also:artillery and later as See also:lieutenant-See also:colonel he, served against the See also:British in South Carolina in 1779—80-, '.bust he was captured near Charleston in 178o, and was imprisoned at St 'See also:Augustine, See also:Florida, for a year. He was a- member of .the state legislature from 1782 to 1798, and' in 1791 drafted the act which abolished See also:primogeniture in South Carolina. From 1798 until his See also:death in Charleston, on the 23rd of See also:January r800, he was governor of South Carolina.
End of Article: RUTLEDGE, JOHN (1739—1800)
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