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The Congressional Evolution of the United States: The Presidential Series - Henry Middleton of South Carolina was the second President of the Untied Colonies Continental Congress. His Presidential tenure, however, was quite brief, being elected on October 22, and ending with the dissolution of the First Continental Congress on October 26th , 1774.

Henry Middleton was born in South Carolina in 1717 to Arthur Middleton (1681–1737) and Susan Amory (1690-1722), on "Their Oaks Plantation.” Although one of eight children, only two other siblings survived into adulthood, William born in 1710 and Thomas born in 1719.

In 1742 he was elected to the South Carolina House of Commons, serving until 1755 (including five terms as speaker). In 1755 he became the king’s Native American affairs commissioner. He was elected to the South Carolina provincial convention and the First Continental Congress, becoming its President for the last four days when the first President, Peyton Randolph, left for Virginia to return to the House of Burgesses, where he was simultaneously serving. Middleton left Congress in 1775 before independence was declared, at which time his son, Arthur, took his place and signed the Declaration of Independence. Henry Middleton returned to South Carolina and became president of its Provincial Congress. After he and Arthur helped write South Carolina’s state constitution, he became a state senator in 1779. Middleton died in Charleston on June 13, 1784.