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Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, (born May 10, 1837, Macon, Ga., U.S.—died Dec. 21, 1921, Washington, D.C.), freeborn black who was a Union officer in the American Civil War and a leader in Louisiana politics during Reconstruction (1865–77).

P.B.S. PINCHBACK was born near Macon, Georgia on May 10, 1837. His father William, was a wealthy white planter, and his mother Elize, was his father’s former slave. Pinchback’s early education was attained in the public schools of Cincinnati, Ohio. He later studied law at Straight University in Louisiana, and in 1886, was admitted to the bar.

Hear the incredible, improbable, and sadly forgotten story of P.B.S. Pinchback, governor of Louisiana just after the Civil War. P.B.S. Pinchback. It only lasted 15 days. But from December 29, 1872, to January 13, 1873, P.B.S. Pinchback made history. Somehow, amid the especially brutal racism of the Reconstruction era, and in one of the South ...

Died: December 21, 1921 in Washington, DC Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, the son of a Mississippi white planter and a freed slave, became active in Republican Party politics in Louisiana as a delegate in the Republican state convention of 1867 and to the Constitutional Convention of 1868.

Born Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, May 10, 1837, in Macon, GA; died December 21, 1921, buried in New Orleans; son of Major William Pinchback (a plantation owner) and Eliza Stewart (a slave); married Nina Emily Hawthorne, 1860; six children. Education: Straight University, New Orleans, LA, law degree, c. 1890.

P.B.S. Pinchback. Pinckney Benton Stewart. American Reconstruction-era politician. Born: May 10, 1837. Birthplace: Macon, Georgia. Pinchback was born to a freed slave and her former master, who lived together as a couple. As a young man he worked on steamships traveling the Mississippi, Red, and Missouri rivers, first as a cabin boy and then as ...