Joseph Galloway
Joseph Galloway, a Pennsylvania delegate to the First Continental Congress, proposed the Galloway Plan of Union in 1774 -- a scheme for an American parliament under the Crown that would have kept the colonies within the empire while granting self-government. The Congress rejected it by a single vote. Galloway broke decisively with the Patriot cause afterward, served the British occupation of Philadelphia as a civil administrator, and fled permanently to England in 1778, one of tens of thousands of Loyalists exiled by the Revolution.
- Lived: 1731 CE – 1803 CE
- Nationality: american
- Roles: loyalist, politician
