Butler, Pierce, 1744-1822
Pierce Butler (July 11, 1744 – February 15, 1822) was an Irish-American South Carolina rice planter, slaveholder, politician, an officer in the Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as a state legislator, a member of the Congress of the Confederation, a delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention where he signed the United States Constitution, and was a member of the United States Senate.
Born in County Carlow, Ireland, Butler pursued preparatory studies before coming to America as an officer in the British Army. He resigned his commission in the British Army in 1773 and settled in Charleston, South Carolina and worked as a planter while aiding the American cause during the Revolutionary War. In early 1779, Governor John Rutledge asked the former Redcoat to help reorganize South Carolina's defenses. Butler assumed the post of the state's adjutant general, a position that carried the rank of brigadier general. He preferred to be addressed as major, his highest combat rank.
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