December 19 is a date of significance for all those Americans who love liberty and all those people who revere religious freedom. This year we celebrate the bicentennial of the election of Francis Salvadore to South Carolinas First Provincial Congress. On December 19. 1774. Francis Salvadore. a recent immigrant. an English Jew of education and wealth. was elected by the District of Ninety Six to South Carolinas First Provincial Congress which was to be held in Charleston. Francis Salvadore was the first member of the Jewish faith elected to a parliamentary body in the western world. In November 1773. he arrived in Charleston and settled on the South Carolina frontier near the community of Ninety Six.
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