Lyle Tayson: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

Artist: Lyle Tayson
1924 -
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1977
Image Size: 7.5 by 10.25 inches
Overall Size: 12 by 16 inches
Medium: Water Color on Cold Press Illustration Board

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1746. His father was chief justice of the colony, and his mother had inherited her father's plantation. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney spent sixteen years in schools in England and France before the Revolutionary War. Returning to South Carolina at the age of twenty-three, Pinckney was admitted to the bar to practice law in 1770. During the Revolutionary War, he rose from captain to brigadier general. After the war, he resumed his law practice and was chosen to attend the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Present at all the sessions, he was one of the leaders at the Convention. He urged that larger representation be given to the Southern States in Congress, claiming that the Northern States were trying to control the wealth of the South. He signed the U.S. Constitution, as did his cousin, Charles Pinckney. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney went on to win national prominence as an American diplomat in Paris, when he upheld his country's honor by exposing the XYZ Affair, in which French representatives attempted to obtain bribes from the United States. Pinckney ran as the unsuccessful Federalist candidate for president against Jefferson in 1804 and against James Madison in 1808. In the remaining years of his life, Pinckney conducted experiments in chemistry and botany. He died at Charleston in 1825.

This artwork was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover for The Signers of the Constitution Collection issued on September 17, 1987.

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