Thomas Pinckney
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Thomas Pinckney (1750-1828), was an American soldier, politician, and diplomat.
Pinckney was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and was educated in Great Britain (at Westminster) and France. He fought in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1781, attaining the rank of Captain of Engineers. Pinckney was governor of South Carolina from 1787 to 1789 and became the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain in 1792. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1797 to 1801. He was also a Major General during the War of 1812.
His brother Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and his cousin Charles Pinckney were signers of the United States Constitution. He arranged the Treaty of San Lorenzo, also known as the Pinckney's Treaty, with Spain in 1795. He ran as a Federalist candidate in the U.S. presidential election, 1796.
Pinckneyville, Georgia was named after Thomas Pinckney after he travelled through the area. That town no longer exists as its residents left to found the nearby Norcross. Pinckneyville is the name of a Middle School in the Norcross area.
External links
- Congressional biography of Thomas Pinckney (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000357)
| Preceded by: John Adams(a) | Federalist Party Vice Presidential candidate 1796 (lost)(a) | Succeeded by: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney(a) |