Article Signer Richard Huston Gets Captured With the Army
Richard Huston was a signer of the Articles of Confederation who spent time in a British prison.
Huston went on to serve as Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina.
Richard Huston
Richard Huston was a 30-something Princeton graduate practicing law in Charleston, South Carolina when the Revolutionary War began.
Huston sided with the Patriots and by 1779 he had been sent to represent his State in the Continental Congress.
While he was there, South Carolina approved the Articles of Confederation and Richard signed the nation’s first government as his State’s Representative.
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The following year, Huston was serving in the South Carolina House of Representatives when the British captured Charleston.
As he was a Revolutionary leader in the city at the time of the occupation, Richard was arrested.
He was sent with most of the other rebels to a British fort in St. Augustine, Florida.
Huston remained a prisoner of war for just over a year, when all of the Americans were set free.
Lieutenant Governor
Richard returned home and resumed his seat in the State House of Representatives.
Shortly thereafter, Huston was chosen as the Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina, a position he held for two years.
At the end of his term, he was voted in as the Mayor of Charleston.
Huston split the remainder of his life between his private law practice and service as a judge.
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