Thomas Pinckney
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Image:Tpinckney.jpg 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 traveled 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.
- He was married twice to sisters-his second wife was the widow of John Middleton-a cousin of Arthur Middleton
- His son Thomas was married to Elizabeth Izard, a cousin several times removed of South Carolina Congressman Ralph Izard.
- A maternal grandson was Benjamin Huger.
- The wife of his first cousin once removed was the sister of Colonel John Laurens. {A sister of John Laurens was the wife of Congressman David Ramsay; a brother of John Laurens married the daugther of Governor John Rutledge.}
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