Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback

Pinchback's term as governor lasted about six weeks. He took the oath on December 9, 1872, after the legislature impeached Henry Warmoth, and left office on January 13, 1873, when the term ended. Born free in Macon, Georgia, in 1837, he had raised companies for the Louisiana Native Guards in 1862 and was commissioned captain. Legislators then elected him to the U.S. Senate, but he was never seated; the Senate ruled against him once Democrats held Congress, and he was awarded $16,000 in salary and mileage. At the 1879 constitutional convention he helped win support for Southern University.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Arna Bontemps African American Museum — steps away
  The restored Alexandria house where the Harlem Renaissance writer Arna Bontemps was born in 1902, on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
• Forts Randolph and Buhlow State Historic Site — 0.9 mi
  Two Confederate earthen forts on the Red River at Pineville, built with enslaved labor and never attacked, beside the remains of Bailey's Dam.
• Kent Plantation House — 2.4 mi
  Rapides Parish's oldest known standing building, a Creole house with a February tour and a 2023 memorial that put the enslaved first.
• Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum — 4.7 mi
  A National Guard museum in a replica WWII barracks at Camp Beauregard, built around the huge 1940-41 war games in Central Louisiana. Free.

More markers nearby

• Alexandria — steps away
• Thomas Courtland Manning — steps away
• Red River — steps away
• The Hotel Bentley — steps away