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Theodore Gourdin

American politician

Field	Value
name	Theodore Gourdin
image	Theodore Gourdin (cropped).png
caption	Gourdin in 1922 publication
birth_date
birth_place	near Kingstree, Province of South Carolina, British America
death_date
death_place	Pineville, South Carolina, U.S.
resting_place	Episcopal Cemetery, Saint Stephen, South Carolina
state3	South Carolina
district3	3rd
term_start3	March 4, 1813
term_end3	March 3, 1815
predecessor3	David R. Williams
successor3	Benjamin Huger
profession	planter

Theodore Gourdin (March 20, 1764 – January 17, 1826) was an American slaveholder and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from South Carolina from 1813 to 1815.

Life

Born near Kingstree in the Province of South Carolina, Gourdin was educated in Charleston, and in Europe. He owned a plantation, on which he enslaved people, in Moncks Corner, South Carolina.

Congress

Gourdin was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1815).

Later career and death

After his term, he resumed agricultural pursuits.

He died in Pineville, South Carolina, January 17, 1826, and was interred in Episcopal Cemetery, St. Stephen, South Carolina.

Mrs. Theodore Gourdin (Elizabeth Gaillard) (1766-1835)

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