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Grimké was elected a judge of the superior court in 1783 under the newgovernment of the state and United States. In 1799 he became senior associate. He was elected as a representative to the state house, and thenas speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1785-86.He served as a member of the state convention of 1788 that reviewed andadopted the Federal constitution.
Elected intendant September 11, 1786, succeeding Arnoldus Vanderhorst.Re-elected September 10, 1787, and September 7, 1788; resigned September 15, 1788. Succeeded by Rawlins Lowndes, September 1788.
Born 1752, died August 9, 1819, in New Jersey.
Son of John Paul Grimké and Mary Faucheraud, married Mary Smith 1784.
Graduate (1774) of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Attorney, admitted to bar in 1783. Owned Washington Plantation (CooperRiver) in St. John's, Berkeley, Parish.
1776 entered the Regiment of Artillery, rose to lieutenant colonel, service at the Battle of Stono (June 1779), the siege of Savannah (autumn1779); present at the fall of Charleston in May 1780, he was released by the British but imprisoned March, 1781, for violating his parole. When released, he joined General Nathanael Green's army.
Associate justice of South Carolina's Court of Common Pleas and GeneralSessions from 1783 to his death. Represented St. Philip's and St. Michael's parishes in State House during eight General Assemblies, 1782-1790.
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