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| (1758–1824)
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| US governor, senator, and diplomat, born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. The second cousin of Thomas Pinckney, he served as a Revolutionary soldier and was a South Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress (1784–7), and then to the Constitutional Convention (1787). Although he contributed to the Constitution, it was not as much as he would later claim. He was elected governor of South Carolina several times (Federalist, 1789–92; Democrat-Republican, 1797–9, 1807–9). As governor he extended suffrage to all white males, obtained civil rights for Jews, and established free schools. As US senator (Democrat-Republican, SC, 1799–1801), he was a supporter of Jefferson, who named him ambassador to Spain (1801–5), and he negotiated Spain's acceptance of the Louisiana Treaty. He also served South Carolina in the US House of Representatives (Democrat-Republican, 1819–21). |
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