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Gadsden, James

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Gadsden, James (1788–1858)

US military leader and diplomat. In 1823 he was appointed by President Monroe to supervise the forced resettlement of the North American Seminole people to southern Florida and participated in the ensuing Seminole Wars. As US minister to Mexico, he negotiated in 1853 the Gadsden Purchase, acquiring for the USA from Mexico what is now New Mexico and Arizona.

Gadsden was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and educated at Yale University. He served in the Anglo-American War of 1812 as well as in the Seminole Wars. After several years as a railroad executive, he was named US minister to Mexico and agreed the sale of Mexican territory south of the Gila River, to be used as a route to California. The Gadsden Purchase was approved by the Senate 1854.



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