"G" is for Grimké, John Faucheraud (1752-1819). Legislator, jurist. In1774, after graduating from, Cambridge, Grimké returned to Charleston. He organized an artillery unit for service in the Revolution and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was captured at the fall of Charleston and imprisoned by the British—but escaped and joined General Nathaniel Greene’s army. He represented St. Philip’s and St. Michael’s (1782-1790) in the South Carolina House and served one term as Speaker. The legislature named him an associate justice of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions. He compiled and published The Public Laws of South Carolina. During his thirty-six years on the bench, John Faucheraud Grimké helped establish the fundamental principles of South Carolina jurisprudence by advocating professionalization of legal study, uniformity of law, and judicial independence.