biography
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| lived:
| (1724–92)
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| biography:
| Merchant and Revolutionary politician, born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. A wealthy businessman, he entered the second Continental Congress (1777) and served as its second president (1777–8). In 1780 he was captured by the British while on his way to the Netherlands on a diplomatic mission. He was imprisoned and finally exchanged for General Charles Cornwallis (1782), and immediately went on to serve at the peace conference that produced the Treaty of Paris (1783). He served as an unofficial ambassador to England until returning to his estate in South Carolina (1784). |
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