Joseph Gardner

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

Joseph Gardner came in 1752 in what is now Chester County in southeastern Pennsylvania to the world; his date of birth is not known. He studied medicine as a young man and then began to practice as a doctor. After the outbreak of the American Revolution he presented in 1776 a volunteer company for the Continental Army together. Later he commanded the fourth Militia Battalion of the Chester County. From 1776 to 1778 he was a member of a local Committee of Safety; these committees took over at the beginning of the revolution in many places the duties of a provisional government.

Between 1776-1778 Gardner was a member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. In 1779, he worked in the Government of his State ( Supreme Executive Council) with. From 1784 to 1785 he then took its mandate as a delegate to the Continental Congress, which met at this time in Annapolis, Trenton, and New York. He then focused back on his time as a doctor, which he pursued from 1785 to 1792 in Philadelphia, and until his death in 1794 in Elkton.