| LC control no. | no 92005320 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Middleton, Henry, 1717-1784 |
| Associated place | South Carolina |
| Birth date | 1717 |
| Death date | 1784-06-13 |
| Affiliation | United States. Continental Congress |
| Profession or occupation | Planter Public official President of the Continental Congress President of the South Carolina Provincial Congress Senator |
| Found in | United States. Continental Congress. Extracts from the votes and proceedings of the American Continental Congress, held at Philadelphia, on the fifth of September, 1774, 1774: p. 82 (signed, Henry Middleton, president) DAB (Middleton, Henry; b. 1717; d. 1784) English Wikipedia website, viewed Jan. 29, 2018 (Henry Middleton (1717--June 13, 1784) was a planter and public official from South Carolina. A member of the colonial legislature, during the American Revolution he attended the Continental Congress and served as that body's presiding officer for a few days in 1774. He left Congress before it declared independence. Back in South Carolina, he served as president of the provincial congress and senator in the newly created state government. After his capture by the British in 1780, he accepted defeat and returned to the status of a British subject until the end of the war) |
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