His grandfather Christopher served in the First and Second Continental Congress.
His grandfather Christopher served in the First and Second Continental Congress. He served with Andrew Jackson in the Creek War, and in 1823 Jackson appointed him commissioner to negotiate the removal of the Seminoles from Florida. He would go on to become president of the South Carolina Railroad Company and first advocated a transcontinental railroad via a southern route. The appointment of his friend Jefferson Davis to Franklin Pierce's cabinet gave him a new opportunity and he would become minister to Mexico. FTP, name this man who, in 1853, negotiated the purchase of 30,000 square miles of the southwestern U.S.
His grandfather Christopher served in the First and Second Continental Congress.
James {Gadsden}