Pinckney, Thomas (1750-1828), was an American soldier, statesman, and diplomat. He arranged the Treaty of San Lorenzo, also known as the Pinckney Treaty, with Spain in 1795 (see Pinckney Treaty ). He ran as a Federalist candidate in the presidential election of 1796, which was won by John Adams.
Pinckney was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on Oct. 23, 1750. He was educated in Britain and France. He fought in the American Revolution from 1775 to 1781 and rose to the rank of major. Pinckney was governor of South Carolina from 1787 to 1789 and became the United States minister to Great Britain in 1792. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1797 to 1801. His brother Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and his cousin Charles Pinckney were signers of the Constitution of the United States. Thomas Pinckney died on Nov. 2, 1828.
