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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South CarolinaPierce BUTLER
(1744-1822)
Senate Years of Service:
1789-1796; 1802-1804Party: Pro-Administration;
Anti-Administration; Democratic Republican; Democratic
RepublicanBUTLER, Pierce, a Delegate
and a Senator from South Carolina; born in County Carlow, Ireland,
July 11, 1744; pursued preparatory studies; came to America in 1758
as an officer in the British Army; resigned his commission prior to
the Revolutionary War and settled in Charles Town (now Charleston),
S.C.; planter; aided the American cause during the Revolutionary
War; delegate to the Continental Congress in 1787; member of the
convention which framed the Federal Constitution in 1787; elected
to the United States Senate in 1789 for the term ending March 3,
1793; reelected December 5, 1792, and served from March 4, 1789, to
October 25, 1796, when he resigned; again elected to the United
States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Ewing
Colhoun and served from November 4, 1802, until his resignation
November 21, 1804; died in Philadelphia, Pa., February 15, 1822;
interment in Christ Churchyard, Philadelphia, Pa.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Coglan, Francis. “Pierce Butler, 1744-1822,
First Senator from South Carolina.” South Carolina
Historical Magazine 78 (April 1977): 104-19; Sikes, Lewright B.
The Public Life of Pierce Butler, South Carolina Statesman.
Washington: University Press of America, 1979.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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