Facts: - imagesize: 245px - death place: charleston , south carolina - caption: possible portrait by benjamin west , circa 1771 - successor: peyton randolph - death date: june 13 , 1784 1717 - predecessor: peyton randolph - office: 2nd president of the continental congress - spouse: mary williams - term end: october 26 , 1774 - term start: october 22 , 1774 - birth date: 1717 - name: henry middleton - image: henry middleton by benjamin west.jpg - birth place: near charles town , province of south carolina - occupation: planter , public official Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of henry middleton .
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henry middleton -lrb- 1717 -- june 13 , 1784 -rrb- was a plantation owner and public official from south carolina .a member of the colonial legislature , during the american revolution he attended the continental congress and served as that body 's presiding officer for a few days in 1774 .he left congress before it declared independence .back in south carolina , he served as president of the provincial congress and senator in the newly created state government .after his capture by the british in 1780 , he accepted defeat and returned to the status of a british subject until the end of the war .