Butler, Pierce, 1744-1822

U.S. Senator and planter from South Carolina.

Signer of Constitution.

U.S. senator from South Carolina, state legislator, and public official.

U.S. senator from South Carolina, 1789-1796 and 1802-1806.

Pierce Butler was a South Carolina planter who served as a senator. He owned land in South Carolina and Georgia.

South Carolina state legislator, plantation owner, U.S. Continental Congressman, and U.S. senator. By 1809 he was one of the wealthiest plantation owners in America, holding properties in South Carolina and elsewhere, including six rice and cotton plantations in Georgia.

Member of U.S. Constitutional Convention and Senate from South Carolina.

Signer of Constitution. Member of Cont. Cong. Gov. of South Carolina.

Butler was a soldier, planter, and statesman, who represented South Carolina in the Continental Congress and the U.S. Senate. After 1805 he resided mostly in Philadelphia and for a time was one of the largest landowners in the United States. Monroe was the 5th President of the United States.

South Carolina plantation owner, state legislator, and U.S. Continental Congressman. Butler served as a South Carolina delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and was also briefly a delegate to the Confederation Congress in 1787.

Pierce Butler was 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. Biographical Directory of The United States Congress http://bioguide.congress.gov (Retrieved March 11, 2009)

Mr. F.D. Petit de Villers was a merchant in Savannah, Georgia.

Epithet: Major