Joseph Gardner

This article is about the politician Joseph Gardner. On the executed murderer, see Joseph Martin Luther Gardner .

Joseph Gardner (* 1752 in Honey Brook Township , Province of Pennsylvania , †  1794 in Elkton , Maryland ) was an American politician who took part in the Continental Congress as a delegate from Pennsylvania .

Joseph Gardner was born in 1752 in what is now Chester County in southeastern Pennsylvania; his date of birth has not been recorded. He studied medicine as a young man and then began practicing as a doctor. After the outbreak of the American Revolution , he put together a volunteer company for the Continental Army in 1776 . He later commanded the fourth militia - battalion from the Chester County. From 1776 to 1778 he was a member of a local Committee of Safety ; At the beginning of the revolution, these committees took over the tasks of a provisional government in many places.

Between 1776 and 1778 Gardner was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives . In 1779 he served in the government council of his state ( Supreme Executive Council ). From 1784 to 1785 he then took up his mandate as a delegate to the Continental Congress, which met in Annapolis , Trenton and New York during this time . He then concentrated again on his work as a doctor, which he pursued from 1785 to 1792 in Philadelphia and until his death in 1794 in Elkton.

Web links

• Joseph Gardner in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)