Charles Pinckney (father)
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Charles Pinckney (d. 1758) is the father of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. He was long prominent in colonial affairs, serving as attorney-general of the South Carolina province in 1733, speaker of the assembly in 1736, 1738 and 1740, chief justice of the province in 1752-1753, and agent for South Carolina in England in 1753-1758. He was the uncle of Colonel Charles Pinckney (1731-1784) and the great-uncle of Governor Charles Pinckney (1757-1824). He married Eliza Lucas in 1744.
adapted from 1911 encyclopedia