Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-5590986-20180323070359/@comment-2236231-20180324002506

hmm... well this will give me a chance to contribute in associaiton with a great sum of others. I get that presidents must be fully fictional hmm...

Alright, I have an idea for alternate founding fathers. Though this person is on a state level during the first Republic of South Carolina as known in OTL.

First, John Rutledge in this timeline doesn't become President of South Carolinia (I don't know if you know a lot about the state's history but the Governor use to be styled President when it decalred independence from the Crown until the 2nd President made the title Governor in line with the state's almost Loyalist constitution). Instead John Rutledge retired from poltiics to focus on his law practice after the Stamp Act fiasco.

In his place we see a man named Alfred Lowles become President of South Carolina after the colony declares independence. Alfred Lowles (his family will by the 1830s or sooner change their last name to Lowes and Loles as it grows spliting into two branches). Lowles was in opposition to actions against the Stamp Act (namely the near or at times total vandalism of private homes). He was also opposed to the Quartering Act. Like most men of influence in the era Lowles was a plantation owner and enjoyed the autonomy of his estate. As a senator in South Carolina he was a voice of 'reason; and thus not widely supported by others who saught freedom from the crown. Lowles was the 2nd President of South Carolina. He focused widely on attempting to have South Carolina recognized as 'neutral' in the war. Unlike OTL's counterpart of Rawlins Lowndes Alfred Lowles didn't change the executive's title nor disestablish the Angelican church- he did however support a tolerance in South Carolina. In organization he voiced a support for a county centric government based around land ownership. He was replaced by the General Assembly having proven a poor leader in war with his efforts at negotiating neutrality having faultered. After the Revolution Lowles opposed the Federal Constitution and spent the rest of his political career fighting for the autonomy of the planter (plantation owners). He's looked upon as a 'tin crown noble' but some historians. South Carolina's executive title was changed to Governor sometime after his presidency in South Carolina so as to avoid confusion with the President of the United States of America.