Complex sentence: Rutherford was a North Carolina colonial legislator and an American Revolutionary War general who settled in Middle Tennessee after the Revolution and was appointed President of the Council of the Southwest Territory (the upper chamber of the territorial legislature) in 1794.
Split into simpler sentences: Rutherford was a North Carolina colonial legislator and an American Revolutionary War general who settled in Middle Tennessee after the Revolution. He was appointed President of the Council of the Southwest Territory (the upper chamber of the territorial legislature) in 1794.