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Clementa Pinckney
Prior offices
South Carolina House of Representatives
South Carolina State Senate District 45
Personal
Clementa C. Pinckney (July 30, 1973 - June 17, 2015) was a Democratic member of the South Carolina State Senate. He represented District 45 from 2000 until June 17, 2015, when he was killed in a mass shooting at an AME church in Charleston, South Carolina.[1]
Pinckney served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1997 to 2000.
Biography
Pinckney was a research fellow at Princeton University in 1994. He then earned his B.A. from Allen University in 1995. He went on to receive his M.P.A. from the University of South Carolina in 1999 and his M.Div. from the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in 2008.[2][3]
Pinckney was an African Methodist Episcopal pastor, serving at several churches including the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston.[3]
Committee assignments
2015 legislative session
At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Pinckney served on the following committees:
2013-2014
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Honorable Rev. Clementa Pinckney
The Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, 41, lived much of his life in Ridgeland, South Carolina, but he left a positive impact as a Pastor and Statesman far beyond rural Jasper County. As Pastor, he served thousands of parishioners in many South Carolina churches, and he was a leading member of the South Carolina Senate.
Born into a family with a legacy of church leadership and civil rights activism, Pinckney graduated magna cum laude from Allen University, where he was elected president of the freshman class, senior class, and student body. He was named one of America’s top college students by Ebony Magazine and received a Princeton University Woodrow Wilson Summer Research Fellowship in the fields of public policy and international affairs. He received a graduate fellowship to the University of South Carolina, where he earned a master’s in public administration.
At age 13, Pinckney felt called to become a pastor and was ordained at age 18. After completing his studies at Allen and USC, he earned a Master of Divinity from Lutheran Theological
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Clementa Pinckney, a Martyr of Reconciliation | The Atlantic
The preacher who tried to heal the wounds of Charleston fell victim to neo-Confederate ideology in the city where the Civil War began.
By David W. Blight
The Reverend Clementa Pinckney, pastor of the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, was murdered last week at a Bible study session in his own house of worship. What he died for is almost impossible to capture or clarify right now. But one cause he definitely died for in witheringly painful irony, was the reconciliation of the Civil War in the city where it began. He died in the state where the Confederate battle flag still waves on the Capitol grounds, where neo-Confederate memory and politics endure with a tenacity like nowhere else, and where Pinckney was one of only two votes in the state senate opposing the latest South Carolina voter ID law designed to limit the franchise for black and brown people. He died in a politics that kills.
Just two months ago, on April 19, 2015, Pinckney and I shared the speaking du
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