• District Court, D. South Carolina

  Judge

  1790 – 1812 · 22 yrsAppointed by George Washington

Career

• confirmed

  February 24

  1801 – present · 225 yrs

• State senator

  South Carolina

  1788 – 1790 · 2 yrs

• State representative

  South Carolina

  1786 – 1788 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  1782 – 1786 · 4 yrs

• State representative

  South Carolina

  1781 – 1782 · 1 yr

• Lieutenant governor

  South Carolina

  1780 – present · 246 yrs

• Delegate

  Continental Congress

  1780 – 1781 · 1 yr

• speaker

  January-February

  1779 – present · 247 yrs

• State representative

  South Carolina

  1778 – 1779 · 1 yr

• Member

  South Carolina General Assembly

  1776 – 1778 · 2 yrs

• Member

  South Carolina Commons House of Assembly

  1772 – 1776 · 4 yrs

• Private practice

  1769 – 1772 · 3 yrs

• Commissioner for stamping and issuing paper bills of credit

  1769 – present · 257 yrs

• Private practice

  1765 – 1769 · 4 yrs

• Member

  South Carolina Commons House of Assembly

  1762 – 1765 · 3 yrs

• Private practice

  1761 – 1762 · 1 yr