{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use American English|date=June 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2020}} <!-- This article was automatically created by User:polbot from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000355. The prose may be stilted, and there may be grammatical and Wikification errors. Please improve in any way you see fit. --> {{Infobox officeholder |birth_name = Henry Laurens Pinckney |image = Henry-Laurens-Pinckney.jpeg |birth_date = {{birth date|1794|9|24}} |birth_place = Charleston, South Carolina, United States |death_date = {{death date and age|1863|2|3|1794|9|24}} |death_place = Charleston, South Carolina, Confederate States |alma_mater = South Carolina College |office1 = 29th Mayor of Charleston, South Carolina |term3 = September 7, 1829 – September 6, 1830<br>as Intendant |predecessor3 = John Gadsden |successor3 = James R. Pringle |term2 = September 5, 1831 – September 2, 1833<br>as Intendant |predecessor2 = James R. Pringle |successor2 = Edward W. North |term1 = September 4, 1837 – September 7, 1840 |predecessor1 = Robert Young Hayne |successor1 = Jacob F. Mintzing |state4 = South Carolina |district4 = 1st |term_start4 =March 4, 1833 |term_end4 = March 3, 1837 |preceded4 = William Drayton |succeeded4 = Hugh S. Legaré |office5 = 18th Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives |governor5 = James Hamilton Jr.<br>Robert Young Hayne |term5 = November 22, 1830 – March 4, 1833 |predecessor5 = Benjamin Faneuil Dunkin |successor5 = Patrick Noble |office6 = Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from St. Philip's and St. Michael's Parish |term6 = November 22, 1830 – March 4, 1833 |term7 = November 25, 1816 – January 30, 1828 |party = Nullifier |profession = journalist, politician |spouse = Harriet Lee Post }}
'''Henry Laurens Pinckney''' (September 24, 1794{{spnd}}February 3, 1863) was a U.S. representative from South Carolina, and the son of Charles Pinckney and Mary Eleanor Laurens.
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Pinckney attended private schools. He graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) 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 (1816–1832). 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.<ref name="pinckney">"Henry Laurens Pinckney." http://www.HalseyMap.com/Flash/mayors-detail.asp?polID=25</ref> In 1838, he won among a field of four candidates with the following votes: Pinckney (600), Col. James Lynah (575), Dr. Joseph Johnston (203), and Dr. J.W. Schmidt (141).<ref>{{cite news | url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026897/1838-09-13/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1836&index=2&date2=1846&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Henry+L+Pinckney&proxdistance=5&state=South+Carolina&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Henry+L.+Pinckney&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 | title=Charleston | work=The Edgefield Advertiser | date=September 13, 1838 | accessdate=January 22, 2014 | location=Edgefield, South Carolina | pages=3}}</ref>
Pinckney was elected as a Nullifier to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1837). 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.<ref name="Freehling">William W. Freehling, "The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854", vol. 1 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 327-331.</ref>
Pinckney 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 (1845–1863).
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 on February 3, 1863 (during the time when South Carolina had seceded and joined the Confederate States).
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==Sources== {{CongBio|P000355}} {{S-start}} {{s-off}} {{Succession box | before = Robert Young Hayne | title = Mayor of Charleston, South Carolina | years = 1837–1840 | after = Jacob F. Mintzing }} {{Succession box | before = James R. Pringle | title = Mayor of Charleston, South Carolina | years = 1831–1833 | after = Edward W. North }} {{Succession box | before = John Gadsden | title = Mayor of Charleston, South Carolina | years = 1829–1830 | after = James R. Pringle }} {{s-par|us-hs}} {{US House succession box |state=South Carolina |district=1 |before=William Drayton |years=1833–1837 |after=Hugh S. Legaré}} {{s-end}} {{Mayors of Charleston, South Carolina}}
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