Gwinnett, Button (1735?–1777), an American Revolutionary War patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Gwinnett came to America from England sometime before 1765, when he established a plantation on St. Catherines Island, Georgia. He was elected to the Continental Congress in 1776. In 1777 he was briefly governor of Georgia. He was killed in a duel.
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