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Bookmark or Share- Charles Pinckney - U.S. National Park ServiceCharles Pinckney worked tirelessly for South Carolina. He was the first governor to advocate free schools. He supported legislative reapportionment to provide better representation to the upcountry districts and advocated for universal white male suffrage. Pinckney favored the War of 1812 and supported the elimination of primogeniture.
- Charles Pinckney | Founding Father, US Constitution SignerCharles 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.
- Biographies - Department of History | University of South ...Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, the eldest child of Charles Pinckney (1699–1758) and Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722–1793), was born in South Carolina, educated at Christ Church College, Oxford and read law at the Middle Temple, where he was regarded as a radical on American issues.
- The Founding Fathers: South Carolina | National ArchivesCharles 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.
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney | Revolutionary War, Founding ...Charles Cotesworth Pinckney 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. He served in the first South Carolina Provincial.
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