Theodore Gourdin


Theodore Gourdin was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.

Life

Born near Kingstree, South Carolina, Gourdin was educated in Charleston, South Carolina, and in Europe. He owned a plantation, on which he enslaved people, in Moncks Corner, South Carolina.
Gourdin was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Thirteenth Congress.
After his term, he resumed agricultural pursuits. He died in Pineville, South Carolina, January 17, 1826. He was interred in Episcopal Cemetery, St. Stephen, South Carolina.