Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback

Pinchback was also an editor and a customs officer. He helped start the Louisianian in 1870 and ran it as editor-in-chief from 1878 until it closed in 1882. From 1882 to 1885 he was surveyor of customs at New Orleans. He studied law at Straight University and was admitted to the Louisiana bar in 1886, though he never practiced. He moved to Washington in 1892 and died there on December 21, 1921, and is buried in Metairie Cemetery. Historians dispute the title first Black governor, since Oscar Dunn served as acting governor earlier.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Louisiana State Capitol — 4.4 mi
  A 450-foot Art Deco tower Huey Long pushed through in 1930, finished in 14 months, and the hallway where he was shot in 1935; free to enter and ringed by 27 acres of grounds.
• Capitol Park Museum — 4.7 mi
  The Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge: a shrimp trawler and a Civil War submarine, galleries on the slave market, resistance and Jim Crow, and the music from Armstrong to Chenier.
• Old State Capitol — 5.1 mi
  James Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.
• LSU Rural Life Museum — 9.0 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.

More markers nearby

• Dr. Julia Brogdon Purnell — steps away
• Scott's Bluff — steps away
• Southern University — 1.0 mi
• Ceremonial Indian Mound — 4.4 mi