James Parsons

James Parsons (born 1724) was an American politician and attorney who served as the last vice president of South Carolina from June 27, 1777 to January 9, 1779. He was born in Ireland and migrated to the British colony of South Carolina in 1750. Personal life James Parsons studied law Ireland before migrating to the British colony of South Carolina in 1750. In the Province of South Carolina, he worked as a lawyer and soon acquired wealth and prestige. Between 1752 and 1754 and again from 1760 to 1775 he sat in the colonial House of Representatives. In the early 1770s he joined the revolutionary movement, serving as a member of several assemblies and security committees supporting the independence movement. He was a colonel in the Revolutionary War. He also served in the first three terms of the state legislature of the new state of South Carolina. Politics In January 1775, Parsons was elected as a member of the South Carolina Committee of Public Safety by the South Carolina Provincial Congress, the goal of which was to establish how the colony should be independently governed after independence from Great Britain. He was later reelected to the position.