Information AboutWilliam Pinkney |
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William Pinkney ( March 17 , 1764 – February 25 , 1822 ) was an American statesman and diplomat, and the seventh U.S. Attorney General . Born in Maryland , Pinkney studied medicine (which he did not practice) and law, becoming a lawyer after his admission to the bar in 1786 . After some time practicing law in Harford County, Maryland , he participated in Maryland's State Constitutional convention. Pinkney served in the Maryland House Of Delegates from 1788 to 1792 and then again in 1795 , and served as a U.S. Congressman from the Third District of Maryland in 1791 and from 1815 until 1816 . He was mayor of Annapolis from 1795 to 1800 , Attorney General Of Maryland from 1805 to 1806 , co-U.S. Minister to Great Britain (with James Monroe ) from 1806 to 1807 , and Minister Plenipotentiary from 1808 until 1811 . He then returned to Maryland, serving in the Maryland State Senate in 1811 , becoming the U.S. Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia , along with a special mission to Naples from 1816 until 1818. In 1811 he joined President James Madison 's cabinet as Attorney General. He was a major in the U.S. Army during the War Of 1812 and was wounded at the Battle Of Bladensburg , Maryland in August 1814 . After the War, he served as Congressman from the Fifth District of Maryland from 1815 to 1816, and as a U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1819 until his death in 1822 . He is buried at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. . EXTERNAL LINK |
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