Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (politician, 1789)

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (* 1789 in Charleston , South Carolina , † 1865 in Abbeville , South Carolina) was an American politician . Between 1832 and 1834 he was lieutenant governor of the state of South Carolina.

Career

Charles Pinckney came from a well-known family of politicians. His father Thomas Pinckney (1750-1828) was a diplomat and politician. Among other things, he was the governor of South Carolina and a member of the United States House of Representatives . His grandfather, who was also called Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and lived from 1699 to 1758, was a judge in colonial South Carolina. Other family members held various offices at regional and national levels.

Pinckney graduated from Harvard University . Later on I went on to study law. However, he did not work as a lawyer, but became a successful plantation owner. His plantation was called Woodburn and was near Pendleton . Politically, he joined the Democratic Party . In 1832 he was elected lieutenant governor of his state by the South Carolina General Assembly alongside Robert Young Hayne . He held this office between December 10, 1832 and December 9, 1834. He was Deputy Governor . This time was marked by the nullification crisis.

After his time as Lieutenant Governor, Charles Pinckney was no longer politically active. He lived through the secession of his state from the Union in 1861 and the civil war and died in Abbeville in 1865.

Web links

• Charles Cotesworth Pinckney in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• biography

Individual evidence

1. ^ South Carolina Department of Archives and History: Woodburn, Anderson County (Woodburn Rd., Pendleton vicinity)