death_date birth_date term term_end alma_mater death_place profession preceded term_start spouse name succeeded predecessor birth_place party office state district governor successor article_title
3 february 1863 24 september 1794 september as intendant september 5 , 1831 -- september 2 , 7 1833 as intendant september 4 , 1837 -- september 7 , , 1840 november 22 , 1830 & ndash ; march 1829 4 , 1833 november 22 , 1830 -- march 4 -- , 1833 november 25 , 1816 -- january 30 , september 1828 6 , 1830 march 4 , 1837 south carolina college charleston , south carolina journalist , politician william drayton march 4 , 1833 harriet lee post henry laurens pinckney hugh s. legaré john faneuil dunkin gadsden james r. pringle robert young hayne benjamin charleston , south carolina nullifier 29th of the south carolina house of representatives member of the mayor south carolina house of representatives from st. philip 's and of st. michael 's parish charleston , south carolina 18th speaker south carolina 1st james hamilton , jr. robert young hayne james patrick noble r. pringle edward w. north jacob f. mintzing henry l. pinckney

henry l. pinckney

henry laurens pinckney -lrb- september 24 , 1794 -- february 3 , 1863 -rrb- was a u.s. representative from south carolina , and the son of charles pinckney .
born in charleston , south carolina , pinckney attended private schools .
he was graduated from south carolina college -lrb- now the university of south carolina -rrb- 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 -lrb- 1816 -- 1832 -rrb- .
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 -lrb- 600 -rrb- , col. james lynah -lrb- 575 -rrb- , dr. joseph johnston -lrb- 203 -rrb- , and dr. j.w. schmidt -lrb- 141 -rrb- .
pinckney was elected as a nullifier to the twenty-third and twenty-fourth congresses -lrb- march 4 , 1833 -- march 3 , 1837 -rrb- .
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 .
-lrb- 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 -lrb- 1845 -- 1863 -rrb- .
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 .
