Cleanse A. H. Gifford, (April 20th, 1805 - April 20th, 1894) sometimes referred to as Null, was a Robloxian politician who served as the Propaganda Minister of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1867. He designed signs for businesses and local governments before the Robloxian Civil War. He was Tristan T. Tristler's executive reporter and slave maintainer from 1830 to 1888.
Cleanse, the second-eldest of ten children, was born in Bloxland, Bloxtralia but spent most of his life in Clover City, Eastern Robloxia. His father Adolph O. Gifford, who harked from Prussia, taught him the art of sign making. Upon leaving his new home in Fairview Kentucky at 18, he applied his skills at various towns in the area. Cleanse then moved further from his place of heritage, being hired as an apprentice in metal-making by a blacksmith in Bronze City, a skill that he would use ofter later in life. Cleanse married Eliza Lynche, a childhood friend from his birthplace of Bloxtralia. Eliza and Cleanse bore no children, speculated to be due to infirtility. Cleanse moved to Eastern Robloxia, alongside his brother Tristler, helping building Allen Plantation on his brother Christian's land and eventually maintaining an estimated 14-88 slaves.
In 1840, Cleanse was drafted into the Robloxo-D.O.R war. In the war he got an estimated bodycount of 1-9 kills. While fighting in the Battle of Bloody Marsh, he was severely wounded by an explosion caused by dynamite, mangling his face and forcing him to wear a black mask for the rest of his life. After returning, he continued his work as metal-worker and sign-designer. It is speculated he became resentful and bitter towards the people that mocked his mask, killing those who talked about it.
During the Civil War, Cleanse designed a majority of the Confederacy's posters and flags, during which he was appointed as 2IC by Tristler. When the Confederacy was defeated in 1867, Cleanse was fled Robloxia, hiding in Bloxstralia. in 1894, he was extradited and later arrested for alleged complicity in the assassination of Noobly Bloxington, accused of treason, and imprisoned at Fort Bloxroe, where he died. Immediately after the war, Cleanse and his brother Tristler were often blamed for the Confederacy's defeat, but after his death in Bloxroe and Tristler's release, the Lost Cause of the Confederacy movement considered them both heroes. In the late 19th and the 20th centuries, their legacy as Confederate leaders was celebrated in the South. In the twenty-first century, Cleanse's complacency and collaboration with the Confederacy has been seen as constituting treason, and he has been frequently criticized as a supporter of slavery and racism. Many of the memorials dedicated to him throughout the United States have been removed.