Background
RIVERS, M. Rutledge was born on May 13, 1868 in Mount Pleasant, near Charleston, South Carolina.
RIVERS, M. Rutledge was born on May 13, 1868 in Mount Pleasant, near Charleston, South Carolina.
Public and High Schools, Charleston, South Carolina; Coll, of Charleston, Bachelor of Arts, 1890; Law School, University of Virginia.
Admitted to South Carolina. bar, 1890. Member Hagood, Rivers & Young, since 1913. Corporate Counsel City of Charleston, 1918-1920.
Attorney for various corporations Director South Carolina. Power Company, Atlantic National Bank of Charleston, Citizens and Southern Bank of South Carolina., Port Utilities Commission (Chairman of the Board 1923). Counsel for Charleston Selective Draft Board, World War.
President board of trustees College of Charleston (the oldest municipal university in the United States). Former president Alumni Association College of Charleston. Chairman Board Public School Commissioners.
President of the board of trustees High School of Charleston. Member Society for Relief of Widows and Orphans of Clergy of Protestant Episcopal Church (South Carolina.). Former member State Board of Education.
Former member board of trustees Medical College of South Carolina. Chairman Democratic Executive Committee of City of Charleston.
Co-author: History of the St. Andrew’s Society of Charleston, South Carolina., 1929.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Charleston (former Chairman of Vestry).
Spouse Eliza Ingraham Buist.