Francis Salvador (1747 – 1 August 1776) was an jewish plantation owner in the colony of South Carolina
Born from the Sephardic Jewish community of London;
in 1774 he was the first Jew to be elected to public office in the colonies when chosen for the Provincial Congress.
He had joined the independence cause and in 1776 Some say he was the first Jew killed in the American Revolutionary War, fighting with the militia on the South Carolina frontier against Loyalists
His uncle Joseph established himself as leader of the Sephardic community in England and became the first Jewish
director of the
East India Company.
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