John J. Gardner

John J. Gardner

John James Gardner (born October 17, 1845 in Atlantic County , New Jersey , †  February 7, 1921 in Indian Mills , New Jersey) was an American politician . From 1893 to 1913 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Gardner attended public schools in his home country. During the Civil War , he served in a New Jersey volunteer unit that was part of the Union Army from 1861 to 1865 . Gardner studied law at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1866 and 1867 . After that, however, he did not work as a lawyer, but in the real estate business and in the insurance industry. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1867 he was a councilor in Atlantic City ; between 1868 and 1875 he served as mayor of this city several times. Then he was back on the city council. Gardner was at times the official coroner in Atlantic City. From 1878 to 1893 he was a member of the New Jersey Senate , of which he was President in 1883 as the successor to Garret Hobart . In 1884 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where James G. Blaine was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional election of 1892 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the second constituency of New Jersey , where he succeeded James Buchanan on March 4, 1893 . Reelected nine times, he completed ten legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1913 . During this time the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell . Gardner was at times chairman of the Committee on Labor . In 1912 he was defeated by the Democrat J. Thompson Baker .

After his time in the US House of Representatives, John Gardner worked again in agriculture. He died on February 7, 1921 in Indian Mills.

Web links

• John J. Gardner in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John J. Gardner in the database of Find a Grave (English)