Editing Langdon Cheves (section)

===Business career===
At age 12, Langdon's father withdrew him from school and apprenticed him to James Jaffray, a merchant, Glasgow native, and fellow member of the city's [[St. Andrew's Society of Charleston, South Carolina|St. Andrew's Society]]. Langdon started by performing menial tasks at the Charleston shop before being promoted to [[supercargo]] to accompany shipments to and from [[Edisto Island]]. By 1792, at age 16, he had been promoted to chief clerk. In this role, he met and impressed many of the city's key merchants, including John Potter, from whom Cheves personally secured a loan for the business and who later, as a director of the Bank of the United States, secured Cheves's election as its president.{{sfn|Huff|1977|pp=21–23}}