Charles Pinckney (South Carolina chief justice)

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Charles Pinckney (d. 1758) was a noted South Carolina politician and colonial agent.

Pinckney was long prominent in colonial affairs, serving as attorney general of the Province of South Carolina in 1733, speaker of the assembly in 1736, 1738 and 1740, chief justice of the province in 17521753, and agent for South Carolina in England in 17531758.

Pinckney married Eliza Lucas as his second wife in 1744. Three of their children lived to adulthood: Charles Cotesworth, a signer of the U.S. Constitution; Harriott, who married Daniel Horry; and Thomas, who negotiated Pinckney's Treaty with Spain in 1795. Charles Pinckney was the uncle of Colonel Charles Pinckney (17311784) and the great-uncle of Governor Charles Pinckney (17571824).

This has been adapted from a 1911 encyclopedia.

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