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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South CarolinaRalph IZARD
(1741/1742-1804)
Senate Years of Service:
1789-1795Party: Pro-AdministrationIZARD, Ralph, a Delegate
and a Senator from South Carolina; born at “The Elms,”
near Charleston, S.C., January 23, in 1741 or 1742; pursued
classical studies in England; returned to America briefly in 1764,
but went abroad to reside, taking up his residence in London in
1771; moved to Paris, France, in 1776; appointed commissioner to
the Court of Tuscany by the Continental Congress in 1776, but was
recalled in 1779; returned to America in 1780; pledged his large
estate in South Carolina for the payment of war ships to be used in
the Revolutionary War; Member of the Continental Congress in 1782
and 1783; elected to the United States Senate and served from March
4, 1789, to March 3, 1795; served as President pro tempore of the
Senate during the Third Congress; one of the founders of the
College of Charleston; retired from public life to the care of his
estates; died near Charleston, May 30, 1804; interment in the
churchyard of St. James Goose Creek Episcopal Church, near
Charleston, S.C.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Izard, Ralph. Correspondence of Mr. Ralph Izard
of South Carolina, From the Year 1774 to 1804, with a Short
Memoir. Edited by Anne Deas. 1844. Reprint. New York: AMS
Press, 1976.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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