At one point he became aide-de-camp to General Andrew Jackson.
David Leighton For the Arizona Daily Star James Gadsden, ambassador to Mexico, purchased the land south of the Gila River from Mexico in 1853, an area first called the Gadsden Purchase, now Southern Arizona. His name lives on today in Gadsden Peak and Gadsden, Arizona, among other places.Gadsden was born on May 15, 1788 in Charleston, South Carolina.
By 1820, he had earned the rank of colonel in the military and the following year was put in charge of establishing military posts in what soon became known as the Florida Territory, which had recently become a part of the country. When Chief Osceola and some other Seminoles refused to leave the Florida Territory, the Second Seminole War broke out and Gadsden found himself once again in the U.S. military at least for a period. In time the Seminoles and Black Seminoles, the latter of whom didn’t have tribal membership, were relocated west.
Still determined to create a transcontinental railroad to the Pacific, Gadsden planned a route along the Gila River through the Territory of New Mexico to the coast. He realized that purchasing land in Sonora, Mexico, south of the Gila River, would help make this happen. Gadsden remained in Mexico following the successful land purchase but was unable to have an influence in Mexican politics and eventually was recalled by the U.S. government. He returned home to Charleston, South Carolina and died there on Dec. 26, 1858.
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