Theodore Gourdin
{{Short description|American politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Theodore Gourdin
| image = Theodore Gourdin (cropped).png
| caption = Gourdin in 1922 publication
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1764|03|20}}
| birth_place = near Kingstree, Province of South Carolina, British America
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1826|01|17|1764|03|20}}
|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.
Sources
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Category:People from Kingstree, South Carolina
Category:19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives