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Charles Pinckney Jr. (October 26, 1757 – October 29, 1824) was an American Founding Father, planter, and politician who was a signer of the United States Constitution. He was elected and served as the 37th governor of South Carolina , later serving two more non-consecutive terms.
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (February 25, 1746 – August 16, 1825) was an American statesman, military officer and Founding Father who served as United States Minister to France from 1796 to 1797. A delegate to the Constitutional Convention where he signed the Constitution of the United States , Pinckney was twice nominated by the Federalist ...
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746–1825), U.S. vice presidential candidate (1800), U.S. presidential candidate (1804 and 1808) Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name.
The Charles Pinckney National Historic Site is located about 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Charleston, South Carolina, on 25 acres (10 ha) of Wando Neck, a peninsula formed at the confluence of the Wando and Cooper rivers.
George Lucas Pinckney, her father's namesake, died soon after birth in June 1747. In 1753, the family moved to London for five years. [13] Shortly after their return in 1758 to South Carolina, Charles Pinckney contracted malaria and died. [14] Widowed, Eliza continued to manage their extensive plantations, in addition to the Lucas holdings. [15]
Thomas Pinckney (1750–1828), who negotiated Pinckney's Treaty with Spain in 1795 and was the Federalist candidate for Vice-President in 1796. He was the uncle of Colonel Charles Pinckney (1731–1784) and the great-uncle of Governor Charles Pinckney (1757–1824). [5] Pinckney died on July 12, 1758 in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
His brother Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and his cousin Charles Pinckney were signers of the United States Constitution. Pinckney first married Elizabeth Motte in 1779, a daughter of Jacob and Rebecca Brewton Motte, a planter and merchant family. After her death, he married in 1797 her younger sister, Frances, the widow of John Middleton.
Charles Pinckney (March 7, 1732 - September 22, 1782), also known as Colonel Charles Pinckney, was a South Carolina lawyer and planter based in Charleston, South Carolina. Commissioned as a colonel for the Charles Towne Militia in the colonial era, he was widely known as "Colonel Pinckney".