Izard, Ralph, c. 1742-1804

<ul><b>RACES</b>
<li>05/30/1794 President Pro Tempore Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>02/10/1790 SC US Senate - Initial Election Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>12/31/1782 SC Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>12/31/1781 SC Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
</ul>

Elms Plantation – North Charleston – Charleston County<br>

Basic Information<br>
Location – North Charleston; Charleston County; St. James, Goose Creek Parish

<b>Ralph Blake Izard</b><br>
<b>BIRTH</b> 23 Jan 1742<br>
Berkeley County, South Carolina, USA<br>
<b>DEATH</b> 30 May 1804 (aged 62)<br>
Berkeley County, South Carolina, USA<br>
<b>BURIAL</b><br>
Saint James Goose Creek Cemetery<br>
Goose Creek, Berkeley County, South Carolina, USA

<p>Ralph Izard (January 23, 1741/1742 – May 30, 1804) was a U.S. politician. He served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate in 1794. He was also a slave owner. In 1794, he served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate.</p>

<p>Izard was born at "The Elms" near Charleston, South Carolina. He was the son of Henry Izard and Margaret Johnson. His great-grandfather was Ralph Izard (1660–1710), who was born in Dorchester, England and settled in South Carolina. His maternal grandfather was Province of South Carolina Governor Robert Johnson. Izard's parents died when he was a small child, and only one of his siblings survived to adulthood.</p>

<p>He spent most of his childhood and youth studying in England: he attended a school in Hackney, London, and matriculated as a fellow-commoner at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Izard returned to America in 1764, but did not remain in South Carolina for long. He was elected the American Society (later the American Philosophical Society) in 1768.</p>

IZARD, 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.