Thomas Pinckney

Thomas Pinckney ( born October 23, 1750 in Charleston, South Carolina, † November 2, 1828 ) was an American soldier, politician and diplomat.

Early years

Thomas Pinckney, brother of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and cousin of Charles Pinckney, attended Westminster School and the University of Oxford in England, the French military academy at Caen and the Inner Temple School in London. In 1774 he came to South Carolina back, gained admission to the bar and commenced practice in Charleston. He was an ardent supporter of the revolutionary movement and joined the Continental Army in 1775 in a, in which he brought it up to the Captain.

Political career

After the war he devoted himself to his first plantation, before turning to politics. Between 1787 and 1789 he was Governor of South Carolina. During this time, a meeting ratified under Pinckneys chaired the American Constitution of 1787 for South Carolina. This was South Carolina, as the other twelve founding Member States also officially state of the United States.

After the end of his term he was a member from 1791 to the House of Representatives from South Carolina. President George Washington appointed him as United States Ambassador in Britain. This post he held from January 12 1792 until July 28, 1796. From November 1795 to November 1796, he served temporarily as a special envoy to Spain, where he led the boundary between the United States and the seinzerzeit nor Spanish with the Pinckney Treaty estate Florida and Louisiana negotiated. As successor to William L. Smith, he was on 23 November 1797 to the March 3, 1801 Member of the Federalist Party in the House of Representatives. He was involved in the 1798 impeachment proceedings against Senator William Blount of Tennessee.

He then worked again as a lawyer and on his farm. He was also a Major General in the 1812 British -American war. In the presidential elections in 1796 Pinckney presented as Vice President for election, but was defeated by Thomas Jefferson. President was John Adams.

Pinckney died in 1828 and was buried in St. Philip's Churchyard.

Honor

The City of Pinckneyville in Georgia was named after him after he had traveled through this area. This town does not exist anymore, because their inhabitants, they left to found the nearby Norcross. Pinckneyville is the name of a middle school in the area of ​​Norcross.