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Clementa Carlos "Clem" Pinckney (July 30, 1973 – June 17, 2015) was a Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the 45th District from 2000 until his death in 2015. He was previously a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1997 through 2000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.followthemoney.org/entity-details?eid=13006565&default=candidate )〕 Pinckney was a senior pastor at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. in Charleston. On June 17, 2015, Pinckney was assassinated in a mass shooting at an evening Bible study at his church. U.S. President Barack Obama delivered the eulogy at Pinckney's memorial in his honor. ==Early life and education== Pinckney was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, the son of Theopia Stevenson Aikens (''née'' Brooms; 1945–2005), an early childhood development educator, and John Pinckney, auto mechanic.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JK4R-QNR )〕 Pinckney had at least six brothers and sisters. He began preaching at his church at age 13 and, by age 18, was appointed pastor.〔 Pinckney's mother's family, the Stevenson family, has many generations of pastors in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. A maternal great-grandfather, Reverend Lorenzo Stevenson, brought a lawsuit against the state Democratic Party to end unintegrated primaries. During the Civil Rights movement, an uncle named Reverend Levern Stevenson worked with the NAACP to desegregate school buses, and sued Gov. John C. West to create single-member districts to help elect more blacks into the South Carolina General Assembly. Pinckney's father's family, the Pinckney family, based in the Beaufort, South Carolina area could possibly be descendants of slaves owned by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, who was instrumental in framing the United States Constitution and was part of the Middleton-Rutledge-Pinckney family, a family that included many politicians. The Pinckney Island National Wildlife Refuge is where the plantation was located.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fws.gov/refuges//profiles/index.cfm?id=41629 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fws.gov/refuge/Pinckney_Island/about.html )〕 Pinckney went to Jasper County High school,〔 where he was elected class president two years. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Allen University in 1995 and went on to obtain a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of South Carolina in 1999.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/11972/clementa-pinckney#.VYKAJRNVhBc )〕 He then obtained a Master of Divinity degree from Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.emanuelamechurch.org/revpinckney.php )〕 Pinckney was a student at Wesley Theological Seminary pursuing a Doctor of Ministry degree. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clementa C. Pinckney」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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