1. Ralph Izard was an American politician who served as president pro tempore of the United States Senate in 1794.
17 Facts About Ralph Izard
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Ralph Izard was the son of Henry Izard and Margaret Johnson.
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Ralph Izard's great-grandfather was Ralph Izard, who was born in Dorchester, England and settled in South Carolina.
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Ralph Izard's parents died when he was a small child, and only one of his siblings survived to adulthood.
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Ralph Izard spent most of his childhood and youth studying in England: he attended a school in Hackney, London, and matriculated as a fellow-commoner at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
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Ralph Izard returned to America in 1764, but did not remain in South Carolina for long.
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Ralph Izard was elected the American Society in 1768.
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Ralph Izard resided in London in 1771 and moved to Paris, France, in 1776.
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Ralph Izard was appointed commissioner to the Court of Tuscany by the Continental Congress in 1776, but was recalled in 1779.
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Ralph Izard returned to America in 1780 and pledged his large estate in South Carolina for the payment of war ships to be used in the American Revolutionary War.
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Ralph Izard was a member of the Continental Congress in 1782 and 1783.
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Ralph Izard was one of the founders of the College of Charleston.
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Ralph Izard retired from public life to the care of his estates in 1795.
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In 1767, Ralph Izard married Alice De Lancey, who was a niece of James DeLancey and a descendant of Stephanus Van Cortlandt and Gertrude Schuyler.
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Ralph Izard died near Charleston on May 30,1804, at the age of sixty-two.
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Ralph Izard is interred in the churchyard of St James Goose Creek Episcopal Church, near Charleston.
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One niece Elizabeth Ralph Izard married Alexander Wright, a son of Loyalist Governor of Georgia James Wright.