London-born member of a Sephardic family who settled in South Carolina. Elected to its Provincial Congress in 1774, he was the first Jew elected to public office in the American colonies, and the first Jew to die in the Revolutionary War.
Planter and patriot · 1747–1776
London-born member of a Sephardic family who settled in South Carolina. Elected to its Provincial Congress in 1774, he was the first Jew elected to public office in the American colonies, and the first Jew to die in the Revolutionary War.
