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Rutledge, John

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Rutledge, John (1739–1800)

US governor. Rutledge was delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses, 1774–75, and became the first president of South Carolina in 1776. As South Carolina's governor, he re-established civil government in a state that had been torn apart by war. He was one of the first associate justices on the new US Supreme Court, 1789–91, but stepped down to become South Carolina's chief justice in 1791.



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