Today, the Historical Commission's Quick Fact Friday features one of the four Founding Fathers of our nation who were born, owned properties, and/or had close family living in colonial Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. We would like to acquaint you with Charles Pinckney. Charles Pinckney was born in Charleston, South Carolina on October 26, 1757, and died on October 29, 1824. Pinckney was the fourth son of eight children born to Col. Charles Pinckney and Frances Brewton Pinckney. The Pinckney family owned several properties including two in Mount Pleasant: One was a country estate on Long Point Road called Snee Farm Plantation, and the other was a Haddrell's Point summer house know as  Shell Hall. Charles Pinckney founded the Democratic Party in South Carolina and managed Thomas Jefferson's South Carolina political campaign. He worked diligently in that capacity to negotiate the treaty to purchase Louisiana. Pinckney also urged the South Carolina legislature to support meaningful reforms, including free public education for the state's children. During his illustrious political career that covered South Carolina, the United States, and Spain, Pinckney proved himself one of the key political intellects of the nation's foundational period.