1956/01/01 by Hugh H. L. Bellot · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · Engineering · #American Constitutional Law and Politics #American History and Culture #Cousin #South carolina #Governor #Presidential address #Presidential system #Subject (documents) #Colonialism #History #Genealogy #American history #Economic Justice #Law #Political science #Ancient history #Public administration #Politics #Library science #Engineering
paper · doi:10.2307/3678845
openalex publication_date 1956/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
‘M y Lord Somebody’, wrote a colonial pamphleteer in 1764,—‘My Lord Somebody has a friend, who has a cousin who needs a place, or stands in somebody's way, and so we may come by a governor.’ What was said, justly or unjustly, about governors was believed likewise of the lesser officers of the crown. My subject is the history of two of these placemen, Peter Leigh (1711–59), chief justice of South Carolina from 1753 to 1759, and his son Egerton (1733–81), attorneygeneral from 1765 to 1781.