Charles Pinckney - Signers Of The U.S. Constitution
by Lyle Tayson
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Charles Pinckney - Signers Of The U.S. Constitution
Artist
Lyle Tayson
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Painting - Watercolor On Cold Press Illustration Board
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Best known for his Pinckney Plan, Charles Pinckney was the son of a wealthy South Carolina lawyer and plantation owner. Pinckney received his education in England, and returned to South Carolina, where he began his law practice. He aided the committee that drafted the state's first constitution in 1776, and was elected to the state legislature in 1779. The legislature then elected him to both the Congress of the Confederation, and to the Constitutional Convention. On the fifth day of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, he presented the Pinckney Plan to the delegates. Because no completely authentic copy of the original plan has ever been found, all of Pinckney's exact contributions to the form of the U.S government remain unknown. Historians generally agree, however, that he deserves considerable credit for many of the terms and features of the Constitution. After the Convention, he went on to be elected as governor of SouthCarolina four times. Between his second and third term as governor, he became a Democratic-Republican. His former Federalist friends gave him the nickname "Blackguard Charlie". In 1798, he was elected as a U.S. Senator, and President Jefferson appointed him as U.S. Minister to Spain in 1801. Pinckney held his last major political office as a U.S Representative in the 16th Congress. He died in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1824.
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