Gideon Gardner
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Gideon Gardner was a U.S. Representative
from Massachusetts
.
Born in Nantucket, Massachusetts
, Gardner received a limited schooling.
Gardner was a successful ship master, and later became a shipowner.
Gardner also engaged in mercantile pursuits.
Gardner was elected as a Democratic-Republican Party to the Eleventh
Congress (March 4, 1809 – March 3, 1811).
He resumed his former business pursuits.
He was the bearer of a petition from the citizens of Nantucket to Congress for tax relief in 1813.
He died in Nantucket, Massachusetts
, March 22, 1832.
He was interred in Friends Burying Ground.
Gardner was a direct descendant of Thomas Gardner (planter)
.
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
from Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
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Born in Nantucket, Massachusetts
Nantucket, Massachusetts
Nantucket is an island south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the United States. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the town of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and the coterminous Nantucket County, which are consolidated. Part of the town is designated the Nantucket...
, Gardner received a limited schooling.
Gardner was a successful ship master, and later became a shipowner.
Gardner also engaged in mercantile pursuits.
Gardner was elected as a Democratic-Republican Party to the Eleventh
11th United States Congress
- House of Representatives :-Leadership:- Senate :* President: George Clinton * President pro tempore:** John Milledge ** Andrew Gregg , elected June 26, 1809** John Gaillard , elected February 28, 1810...
Congress (March 4, 1809 – March 3, 1811).
He resumed his former business pursuits.
He was the bearer of a petition from the citizens of Nantucket to Congress for tax relief in 1813.
He died in Nantucket, Massachusetts
Nantucket, Massachusetts
Nantucket is an island south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the United States. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the town of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and the coterminous Nantucket County, which are consolidated. Part of the town is designated the Nantucket...
, March 22, 1832.
He was interred in Friends Burying Ground.
Gardner was a direct descendant of Thomas Gardner (planter)
Thomas Gardner (planter)
Thomas Gardner was an Overseer of the "old planters" party of the Dorchester Company who landed, in 1624 at Cape Ann, to form a colony at what is now known as Gloucester...
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