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B. S. Pinchback<img src="pbs-pinchback.jpg" height=312 width=234 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="P. B. S. Pinchback">AKA Pinckney Benton Stewart PinchbackBorn: <a href="/lists/648/000106330/" class=proflink>10-May</a>-<a href="/lists/836/000105521/" class=proflink>1837</a> Birthplace: <a href="/geo/588/000069381/" class=proflink>Macon, GA</a> Died: <a href="/lists/242/000106921/" class=proflink>21-Dec</a>-<a href="/lists/431/000106113/" class=proflink>1921</a> Location of death: Washington D.C. Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, <a href="/cemetery/711/000208087/" class="proflink">Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, LA</a> Gender: Male Religion: <a href="/lists/870/000071657/" class=proflink>Methodist</a> Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Government, <a href="/lists/206/000068999/" class=proflink>Attorney</a> Party Affiliation: RepublicanNationality: United States Executive summary: First African-American US GovernorMilitary service: Union Army (captain, 1st Louisiana Native Guards)Though not democratically elected, Pinchback was the first US governor of African descent. Not until nearly 120 years had passed would the next black governor, <a href="/people/844/000055679/">L. Douglas Wilder</a>, take office. "Pinchback's presence in the United States Senate is not open to the smallest objection, except the old Bourbon war-whoops of color. He is about thirty-seven years of age, not darker than an Arab. His features are regular, just perceptibly African, his eyes intensely black and brilliant, with a keen, restless glance. His most repellent point is a sardonic smile which, hovering continuously over his lips, gives him an evil look, undeniably handsome as the man is. It seems as though the scorn which must rage within him, at sight of the dirty ignorant men from the South who affect to look down upon him on account of his color, finds play imperceptibly about his lips..." -- Washington correspondent, New York Commercial AdvertiserFather: William Pinchback (white planter, d. 1848) Mother: Eliza Stewart (freed slave) Wife: Nina Emily Hawthorne (b. 1844, four sons, two daughters) Daughter: Nina Pinchback (mother of Harlem Renaissance author <a href="/people/187/000113845/">Jean Toomer</a>)     High School: Gilmore High School, Cincinnati, OH     University: <a href="/edu/368/000121005/">Law, Straight University, New Orleans, LA (1889)</a>     Administrator: <a href="/edu/089/000166588/">Trustee, Southern University</a>     <a href="/gov/263/000052107/">US Senator, Louisiana</a> (1873, unseated for alleged voter fraud)     <a href="/gov/313/000052157/">US Congressman, Louisiana</a> (congressman-elect, 1872, barred from taking seat)     <a href="/gov/942/000051789/">Governor of Louisiana</a> (9-Dec-1872 to 13-Jan-1873)     <a href="/gov/248/000121882/">Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana</a> (1871, upon former Lt. Governor Oscar Dunn's death)     <a href="/gov/113/000121747/">Louisiana State Senate</a> (1868-72) Is the subject of books: Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, <tt>1973</tt>, BY: James Haskins The Political Career of Pinckney Stewart Pinchback, <tt>1944</tt>, BY: Agnes Smith Grosz <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;">New! <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=130831"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=130831">P. B. S. Pinchback</a></td> </tr> </table> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript. 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