biography
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Pinckney, Charles (Cotesworth)
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| lived:
| (1746–1825)
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| biography:
| US statesman, born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. He studied at Oxford and at Caen Military Academy, then settled as a barrister in Charleston. He was Washington's aide-de-camp at Brandywine and Germantown, but was taken prisoner at the surrender of Charleston (1780). A member of the Constitutional Convention (1787), he introduced the clause forbidding religious tests. In 1796 he was appointed minister to France, but the French Directory refused to receive him. He was twice Federalist candidate for the presidency (1804, 1808). |
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