Charles Pinckney

One of only a handful of delegates who was in Trenton for the full 54 days scheduled for the Congressional sessions, Charles Pinckney was a veteran of just about everything: a longtime member of the South Carolina Legislature who was taken prisoner by the British at the fall of Charleston in 1780, he would later serve as the youngest delegate to the federal Constitutional Convention in 1787, four stints as governor of South Carolina, as well as terms in the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, and as Jefferson’s Minister to Spain..

[credit: image after Gilbert Stuart portrait]