Christopher Gadsden
Christopher Gadsden (
February 16,
1724-
August 28,
1805) was born in
Charleston,
South Carolina in
1724, he became the principal leader of the South Carolina radicals in the pre-
Revolutionary period. He served as a delegate to the
Continental Congress from
1774 to
1776 and as a brigadier general in the
Continental Army from 1776 to
1778. He was also a member of the
Constitutional Convention in
1788 and voted for ratification. He died in
1805 in Charleston. The
Gadsden purchase of Arizona was named for his grandson
James Gadsden.