He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1784 to 1788, and was a delegate to the State convention that ratified the U.S. Constitution on May 12, 1788; he was a delegate to the South Carolina Constitutional Convention in 1790.
He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1784 to 1788 and participated in both the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the drafting of the state's new constitution.