PINCKNEY, CHARLES COTESWORTH

1746–1825, American political leader and diplomat, b. Charleston, S.C.; brother of Thomas Pinckney and cousin of Charles Pinckney. After attending Oxford and the military academy at Caen, France, he returned to Charleston, where in 1769 he began to practice law. Subsequent to serving (1775) in the provincial congress, he joined the Continental Army in the American Revolution and was captured by the British at Charleston in 1780. A delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, he helped to secure South Carolina's ratification of the Constitution. In 1796 he was sent as minister to France but was not received by the French government. The next year he was joined by Elbridge Gerry and John Marshall in the mission that led to the notorious XYZ Affair; Pinckney refused to bribe French officials as a prerequisite for opening negotiations with them. He was an unsuccessful Federalist candidate for the vice presidency in 1800 and for the presidency in 1804 and 1808.

See biography by M. R. Zahniser (1967).

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Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States
Book by Charles C. Tansill; Govt. Print. Office, 1927
Subjects: Archives--United States, Constitutional History--United States--Sources, United States--History--Sources
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, South Carolina, appointed delegate...signs Constitution, 951 , 1002 . Pinckney, Thomas, Governor of South Carolina, 78 , 79 , 80 , 81 . Pinckney plan, text of, 964 -966; introduced...
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Antebellum Charleston Dramatists
Book by Charles S. Watson; University of Alabama, 1976
Subjects: American Drama--19th Century--History And Criticism, American Drama--Charleston, S.C--History And Criticism, Theater--Charleston, S.C--History
...McDuffie, George, 99 Macready, William Charles, 24 , 35 , 118 , 134 Manning, Lawrence...21 - 22 ONeall, John Belton, 43 , 100 Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 4 , 46 , 67 , 96 Pinckney, Maria Henrietta, 46 Placide, Alexander...
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The Family Life of George Washington
Book by Charles Moore; Houghton Mifflin, 1926
Subjects: Custis Family, Washington, George--1732-1799
...Massachusetts, Washingtons fondness for, 218 . Phillips Bulletin, the, 219 n . Pinckney, General Charles Cotesworth, 159 . Pinckney, Mrs. Charles Cotesworth, 103 ; letters of Mrs. Lewis to, 163 , 164 . Piqua, Ohio, destroyed by the French...
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A Quest for Glory: Major General Robert Howe and the American Revolution
Book by Charles E Bennett, Donald R. Lennon; University of North Carolina Press, 1991
Pickering, Gen. Timothy, 150 Pilotage, 13 Pinckney, Col. Charles Cotesworth, 58, 60 , 72 -75, 77 , 83 , 165 (n. 16 ) Pinckney, Thomas, 77 , 83 Pines Bridge, N.Y., 109 -11 Pitt County, N.C...
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American Neutrality in 1793: A Study in Cabinet Government
Book by Charles Marion Thomas; Columbia University Press, 1931
Subjects: Neutrality--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--1789-1797
...and Correspondence of Rufus King , edited by Charles R. King, 6 volumes, New York, 1894. Henry...New York, 1900. Life of General Thomas Pinckney , by Rev. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, D.D., Boston, 1895. A Compilation of...
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"You Would Think Me Far Gone in Romance": Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Fictions of Female Identity in the Colonial South
Journal article by Emily Bowles; Southern Quarterly, Vol. 42, 2004
Subjects: Gender equity, Literary criticism, Novels, Personal profiles, Pinckney, Eliza Lucas (1739-62), Southern states, Womens studies, Writers
...in the 175Os, where Charles Pinckney acted as the Carolina governor...left England, Pinckneys sons Charles Cotesworth and Thomas remained in England to attend school. Charles Pinckney died of malaria soon after he...
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Forgotten Founder: the Life and Times of Charles Pinckney
Journal article by Jeffrey W. Dennis; South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 107, 2006
...written account of Charles Pinckney III, scion of one of the most...Carolina and cousin to Thomas and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. Following participation in the Revolution, Charles III spent forty years in public...
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Eliza Lucas Pinckney: the Evolution of an Icon
Journal article by Barbara L. Bellows; South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 106, 2005
...Her two sons, General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and General Thomas Pinckney...her great-uncle General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and her grandfather John...three daughters of General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney who lived at Hampton during...
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Annual Report for 2006
Journal article by Charles F. Bryan Jr.; The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 115, 2007
Subjects: African Americans, American history, Antebellum period, Archives & records, Art exhibits, Baptist churches, Bond strength, Civil rights movement, Collections, Manuscripts, Oral history, State government, World War II
...armies. Purchased through the Charles S. Hutzler Fund. 12. Confederate...service." Purchased through the Charles S. Hutzler Fund. 13. Conservatory...signed by Timothy Pickering, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Marshall, and Elbridge...
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South Carolinians and the Adoption of the United States Constitution
Journal article by Robert M. Weir; South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 101, 2000
...legislature to send Pierce Butler, Charles Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and John Rutledge to the Constitutional...but all worked for its ratification. As Charles Cotesworth Pinckney observed in sending a copy to a friend...
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The Constitutional Convention : The Most Momentous Chapter in American History
Magazine article by Martin D. Tullai; World and I, Vol. 17, April 2002
Subjects: Constitutional history--United States, United States Constitution, United States--Political aspects
...Independence, Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. William Patterson (New Jersey), Charles Pinckney and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (South Carolina), Robert Morris, and Elbridge Gerry were others of significance at the convention...
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How Jefferson Counted Himself In: Something Was Funny about the Georgia Ballot during the 1800 Election. Did Thomas Jefferson Act Properly in Making Himself President in 1801? A Historical Detective Story
Magazine article by Bruce Ackerman, David Fontana; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 293, March 2004
...Federalists it was Adams and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (not to be confused with...Republicans. Not only had Pinckney been a war hero during the...that ballot been tossed out, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, not Thomas Jefferson, might...
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Our Founding Partisans
Magazine article by Robert D. Novak; The American Spectator, Vol. 41, September 2008
Subjects: Congressional elections, First ladies, Politics, Presidential elections, Religion
...Act. Connecticut publisher Charles Holt was jailed and his newspaper...presidential running mate, Gen. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. "I will never more be responsible...electors to "drop" Adams so that Pinckney would end up with more votes...
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America under the Caesars
Magazine article by Michael Lind; The National Interest, July 2010
Subjects: Bacevich, Andrew J.--Criticism and interpretation, Bacevich, Andrew J.--Works, Historians--Criticism and interpretation, Historians--Works, United States foreign relations--Military aspects, United States foreign relations--Political aspects, Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation
...as the influential historian and Indiana native Charles Beard had done in the 1930s and 1940s. Kennan and...Convention, George Washington allegedly inspired Charles Cotesworth Pinckney to mock a proposal that the constitution limit the...
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The Christian History of the Constitution
Magazine article by M. Stanton Evans; Insight on the News, Vol. 11, March 20, 1995
Subjects: Church and state--Political aspects, Constitutional amendments--History, Constitutional history--Analysis
...Roger Sherman, Oliver Ellsworth, John Dickinson, Richard Henry Lee, Elbridge Gerry, Edmund Randolph, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Witherspoon, John Jay and Rufus King -- to name only the more conspicuous. Washington often exhorted...
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The Gurus Take a Country Licking
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 10, 2006
...to be measured against accountants balance sheets is an argument that will never persuade many Americans. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, the minister to France in the Washington administration, was no champion of the common man but he spoke...
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Renovation Complete on Charleston City Market
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 3, 2011
Subjects: News agencies, The Associated Press
...the building, they are really in your store," he said. The market land was given to Charleston in 1788 by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, with the provision it always be used for a public market.
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Bush Administration on Right Track with North Korea
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 22, 2003
...behavior with regard to nuclear weapons or in any other way. According to Bartletts Familiar Quotations, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney said in 1796, "Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute." That should be our guiding principle...


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encyclopedia articles on: Pinckney Charles Cotesworth  - 4 results

 
 
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Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PINCKNEY, CHARLES COTESWORTH 1746 1825, American political leader and diplomat, b. Charleston, S.C.; brother of Thomas Pinckney and cousin of Charles Pinckney. After attending Oxford and the military academy...
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Castle Pinckney
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CASTLE PINCKNEY fortification at the harbor entrance of Charleston, S.C...with France seemed imminent; named for the American diplomat Charles Cotesworth Pinckney . It was a factor in the confrontation at Fort Sumter (1860...
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Constitutional Convention
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...mentioned, such leaders as Edmund Randolph , Gouverneur Morris , Robert Morris, William Paterson , Charles Pinckney , Charles Cotesworth Pinckney , Abraham Baldwin , Luther Martin , and Roger Sherman . Washington was elected to preside, and the...
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Xyz Affair
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Genet (see Genet, Edmond Charles Edouard ) affair. The conclusion...President Washington sent Charles Cotesworth Pinckney as minister to France, but...refusal of French foreign minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand to receive...


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