Pinckney (surname)

Pinckney (surname)

Pinckney is a surname, and may refer to

* Coty Pinckney
* Ed Pinckney

Pinckney was the name of a prominent South Carolina political family around the time of the American Revolution and the adoption of the United States Constitution:
* Charles Pinckney (died 1758), South Carolina politician, father of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and Thomas Pinckney, and uncle of Colonel Charles Pinckney
* Colonel Charles Pinckney (1731–1782), South Carolina politician, British Loyalist during Revolutionary War, father of the Governor Charles Pinckney
* Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746–1825), Revolutionary War general and vice presidential candidate
* Charles Pinckney (1757–1824), drafter of Constitution of the United States, father of Henry Laurens Pickney, and second cousin of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
* Eliza Lucas Pinckney, South Carolina planter
* Thomas Pinckney (1750–1828), South Carolina governor, ambassador to Britain
* Henry Laurens Pinckney, U.S. Representative from South Carolina

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