Henry L. Pinckney, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetHenry L. Pinckney
American politician
Date of Birth: 24-Sep-1794
Place of Birth: Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Date of Death: 03-Feb-1863
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Henry L. Pinckney
- Henry Laurens Pinckney (September 24, 1794 – February 3, 1863) was a U.S.
- Representative from South Carolina, and the son of Charles Pinckney and Mary Eleanor Laurens. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Pinckney attended private schools.
- He graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1812.
- He studied law and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Charleston. Pinckney served as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (1816–1832).
- He founded the Charleston Mercury in 1819 and was its sole editor for fifteen years.
- Between 1829 and 1840, he served six terms as intendant or mayor of Charleston.
- In 1838, he won among a field of four candidates with the following votes: Pinckney (600), Col.
- James Lynah (575), Dr.
- Joseph Johnston (203), and Dr.
- J.W.
- Schmidt (141).Pinckney was elected as a Nullifier to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1837).
- He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1836, having been labelled a "traitor" by ultra-conservative Southerners for compromising with New York's Martin van Buren on the 1836 "gag-rule" bill.
- ( He served as collector of the port of Charleston in 1841 and 1842 and as the tax collector of St.
- Philip's and St.
- Michael's parishes (1845–1863). Pinckney married Harriet Lee Post, the daughter of Chaplain of the Senate Reuben Post and Harriet Moffitt, a granddaughter of Richard Henry Lee.
- He died in Charleston, South Carolina, February 3, 1863, and was buried in the Circular Congregational Church Burying Ground.
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