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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 ...
2. Apr. 2024 · Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (born Feb. 25, 1746, Charleston, S.C. [U.S.]—died Aug. 16, 1825, Charleston) was an American soldier, statesman, and diplomat who participated in the XYZ Affair, an unsavory diplomatic incident with France in 1798. Pinckney entered public service in 1769 as a member of the South Carolina Assembly.
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2. Apr. 2024 · Charles Pinckney was an American Founding Father, political leader, and diplomat whose proposals for a new government—called the Pinckney plan—were largely incorporated into the federal Constitution drawn up in 1787. During the American Revolution, Pinckney was captured and held prisoner by the
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19. Dez. 2018 · Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, South Carolina. The eldest son of a politically prominent planter and a remarkable mother who introduced and promoted indigo culture in South Carolina, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney was born in 1746 at Charleston.
Learn about the life and achievements of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, a South Carolina politician, soldier, diplomat, and signer of the US Constitution. Explore his role in the American Revolution, the Constitutional Convention, the XYZ Affair, and the Federalist Party.
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney was a leading South Carolina lawyer, military figure, and statesman, whose wealth stemmed from the labor of those he enslaved on his rice plantations.
This digital resource collects, for the first time, the papers of three of the most notable Pinckneys: brothers Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746–1825) and Thomas Pinckney (1750–1828) and their cousin Charles Pinckney (1757–1824). They served variously as young officers during the American Revolution, governors of the state of South ...
