Pinkney, William
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born March 17, 1764, in Annapolis, Md. He was a member of the conthe convention which ratified the federal constitution; and from 1789 to 1792 was a in representative congress. In 1795 he was a member of the state legislature. In 1806 he was envoy extraord i nary to England, and in 1808 was made minister plenipotentiary. He settled in Baltimore in 1811; was soon after a member of the state senate; and in 1811 was attorney-general. He was a representative in congress in 1815 and 1816; and was then made minister to Russia and envoy to Naples. In 1819 he was elected a member of the United States senate, and continued in that station until his death. He died Feb. 25, 1822, in Washington, D. C. was