Francis Gardner

Francis Gardner (* December 27, 1771 in Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, † June 25, 1835 in Roxbury, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1807 and 1809 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Francis Gardner studied until 1793 at Harvard University. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1796 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Walpole (New Hampshire). In 1806 he moved to Keene. From 1807 to 1820 was Gardner prosecutor in Cheshire County.

Politically, Gardner Member, founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1806, which were held all across the state, he was for the third parliamentary seat from New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1807, the successor of David Hough of the Federalist Party. Since he resigned at the next election in 1808 on another candidacy, Gardner was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1809.

After his time in the House of Representatives Francis Gardner is no longer politically have appeared. About his sister Hannah, he was a brother of Congressman Abijah Bigelow, who sat from 1809 to 1815 for the state of Massachusetts in Congress.