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He was born on September 24, 1794 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States, a child of Charles Pinckney and Mary Eleanor Laurens, who died at the time of her son's birth.
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He was born on September 24, 1794 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States, a child of Charles Pinckney and Mary Eleanor Laurens, who died at the time of her son's birth.
His early education was directed by his father and the Rev. George Buist. In 1812 he was graduated from South Carolina College and later had legal training under his brother-in-law Robert Y. Hayne but did not follow the law professionally.
At the first opportunity (1816) he secured a seat from Charleston in the state House of Representatives to which he was regularly elected for the next seventeen years, serving acceptably a large part of this time as chairman of the ways and means committee and as speaker during the last three years (1830 - 1832).
In June 1823, he became the proprietor and principal editor of the Charleston Mercury, established the previous year, and despite the competition of three other dailies he had soon enlarged its size and added a "country" edition. When in October 1832 he severed connections with it, the Mercury had probably the largest circulation of any newspaper of the state and was the most uncompromising champion of "Southern rights, " having just concluded a successful agitation in favor of nullification of the tariff acts.
Meanwhile, Pinckney had been elected (1829) intendant, or mayor, of Charleston. The next year he was defeated by a Unionist, but with the increasing acceptance of the policy of nullification, which had become the main issue in the city campaigns, he was returned to this office at the two ensuing elections and then sent successively to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth congresses (1833 - 1837).
Early in the next Congress, he brought himself into sharp conflict with the Calhounites who were contending for the outright rejection of these offensive memorials. He was unjustly denounced by the latter as a traitor to the South, the suggestion even being made that he was selling his principles for a navy yard. Largely in consequence of this, he lost the support of the country parishes of his district and was defeated for reelection in 1836.
Having retained, however, his popularity with the city electorate, especially the plebeian element, he was again chosen mayor in 1837, 1838, and 1839. During the remainder of his life he occupied public offices of only minor importance: collector of the port (1840 - 1841), member of the state House of Representatives (1844 - 1845), and city tax collector from 1845 to the time of his death. He died in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.
Henry Laurens Pinckney was the 29th Mayor of Charleston. During his administration he accomplished much in the way of civic improvement, notably the conversion of the College of Charleston (1837) into the first municipal college in the United States and the construction of the White Point or Battery Gardens, the most distinctive feature of Charleston's topography. He also founded the Charleston Mercury and was its sole editor for fifteen years.
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Throughout his term he was in complete accord with the Calhoun state-rights faction, defending at every opportunity the doctrine of nullification as recently applied by his state at the obvious sacrifice of his chances of securing the navy yard and other federal works desired by his Charleston constituents.
He was twice married: to Rebecca Pinckney Elliott and Sabina Elliott Ramsay, a first cousin in each instance, and by the first marriage had two sons and a daughter.
