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When Pinkney was nine he was sent to Gilmore's High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, a progressive school that admitted blacks and mulattoes. At Gilmore's he escaped class as often as possible, preferring to shoot craps with fellow truants and to associate with gamblers at the Cincinnati docks.

His schooling at Gilmore's was cut short upon the death of his father. At the event of this death, Eliza Stewart lost her status as mistress of a wealthy plantation owner and the financial security she had known. Although the elder Pinchback had tried to provide for her and their five children, his eastern white relatives purloined the inheritance as well as attempting to capture her as a slave. Eliza took the children and fled penniless to Cincinnati.

An older brother, Napoleon, became mentally ill from the stresses of family upheaval, and, at twelve years old, Pinkney was faced with supporting his mother and siblings. Although not able to completely comprehend the responsibilities thrust upon him, his father'

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mination amid thunderous applause, as it seemed to him to be too early for colored people to embrace one of their own in such a powerful and responsible position as state governor. Pinchback was elected state senator, but over a violent issue regarding an attack by a gunman on the street, he gave an enraged defensive speech that hurt his political career. He was beginning to see that he would always be viewed in terms of his race, regardless of how educated and wealthy he would become. This experience of disillusionment seems to be a turning point in his life, after which he did not trust whites at all and attempted to get as much from them as he could. At this time the Louisianian became a political mouthpiece for Pinchback. He was initially joint owner of the newspaper and soon purchased full ownership, making the paper a voice for blacks. Henry C. Warmoth became governor of Louisiana, and Pinchback was named Lieutenant Governor. Following a series of unsavory illegal activities, Warmoth was impeached on December 9, 1872, and P. B. S. Pinchback was declared Governor of Louisiana the same day. He was governor for only one month. Little of importance happened during his tenure, and he was even unable to open the safe cont
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