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PINCKNEY, CHARLES COTESWORTH (17461825) , American statesman, was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on the 25th of February 1746, the son of Charles Pinckney (d. 1758),2 by his second wife, the celebrated girl planter, Eliza Lucas. When a child he was sent to England, like his brother Thomas after him, to be educated. Both of them were at Westminster and Oxford and were called to the bar, and for a time they studied in France at the Royal Military College at Caen. Returning to America in 1769, C. C. Pinckney began the practice of law at Charleston, and soon became deputy attorney-general of the province. He was a member of the first South Carolina the Supreme Court (1791), secretary of war (1795) and secretary the document sent by Pinckney to Adams in 1818 is a genuine copy of his original
2 Charles Pinckney, the father, was long prominent in colonial affairs; he was attorney-general of the province in 1733, speaker of the assembly in 17361738 and in 1740, chief
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series .of state (r795), each of which he declined; but in 1796 he succeeded James Monroe as minister to France. The Directory refused to receive him, and he retired to Holland, but in the next year, Elbridge Gerry and John Marshall having been appointed to act with him, he again repaired to Paris, where he is said to have made the famous reply to a veiled demand for a " loan " (in reality for a gift ), " Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute," another version is, " No, not a sixpence." The mission accomplished nothing, and Pinckney and Marshall left France in disgust, Gerry (q.v.) remaining. When the correspondence of the commissioners was sent to the United States Congress the letters " X," " Y " and " Z," were inserted in place of the names of the French agents with whom the commission treatedhence the " X Y Z Correspondence," famous in American history. In 1800 he was the Federalist candidate for vice-president, and in 1804 and again in s8o8 for president, receiving 14 electoral votes in the former and 47 in the latter year. From 18o5 until his death, on the 16th of August 1825, he was president-general of the Society of the Cincinnati.End of Article: PINCKNEY, CHARLES COTESWORTH (17461825) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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