Pierce Butler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pierce Butler

United States Founding Father, from South Carolina

Date of Birth: 11-Jul-1744

Place of Birth: County Carlow, Leinster, Ireland

Date of Death: 15-Feb-1822

Profession: military personnel, politician, farmer, military officer, settler, plantation owner

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Pierce Butler (July 11, 1744 – February 15, 1822) was a South Carolina rice planter, slaveholder, politician, an officer in the Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
He served as a state legislator, a member of the Congress of the Confederation, a delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and a member of the United States Senate. As one of the largest slaveholders in the United States, he defended American slavery for both political and personal motives, even though he had private misgivings about the institution and particularly about the African slave trade.
He introduced the Fugitive Slave Clause into a draft of the U.S.
Constitution, which gave a federal guarantee to the property rights of slaveholders.
He supported counting the full slave population in state totals for the purposes of Congressional apportionment.
The Constitution's Three-Fifths Compromise counted only three-fifths of the slave population in state totals, but still led to Southern states having disproportionate power in the U.S.
Congress.