Later Years
The Senate's rejection of his nomination left Rutledge mentally ruined. He attempted suicide shortly afterward. His method was jumping off a wharf into Charleston Bay. Rutledge returned to Charleston, South Carolina, following his resignation and withdrew from public life.
John Rutledge died on June 21, 1800, at the age of sixty. He was interred at St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Charleston. One of his houses, said to have been built in 1763 and definitely sold in 1790, was renovated in 1989 and opened to the public as the John Rutledge House Inn.
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