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What prevented Button Gwinnett from holding office after independence?

He thought Georgia should be a country.
He died during the revolution.
He sided with Britain at war’s end.
He was British by birth.

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Answer:

He died during the revolution.

Explantion:

On May 16, 1777, British-born Georgia Patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence Button Gwinnett receives a bullet wound in a duel with his political rival, Georgia city Whig Lachlan McIntosh. Three days later, Gwinnett died as a result of the gangrenous wound.

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