Francis Salvador
Politician, Deceased Person
1747 – 1776
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Who was Francis Salvador?
Francis Salvador was a young English-Jewish planter in the colony of South Carolina; in 1774 he was the first Jew to be elected to public office in the colonies when chosen for the Provincial Congress. He had joined the independence cause and was the first Jew killed in the war, fighting with the militia on the South Carolina frontier against Loyalists and their Cherokee allies.
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- Born
- 1747
London - Religion
- Sephardic Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- England
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Aug 1, 1776
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on July 23, 2013
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