Frank Gardner (Indiana)

Frank Gardner (* May 8, 1872 in Scottsburg, Scott County, Indiana; † February 1, 1937 ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1929 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frank Gardner attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1896, the Borden Institute. After a subsequent law degree from Indiana University in Bloomington and its made ​​in 1900 admitted to the bar he began in Scottsburg to work in this profession. Between 1903 and 1911 he was auditor in Scott County; 1911 to 1917, he served there as a district attorney.

Politically, Gardner member of the Democratic Party. Between 1912 and 1922 he was the district chairman in Scott County. In the congressional elections of 1922, Gardner was the third electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James W. Dunbar on March 4, 1923. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1929 three legislative periods. In 1928 he lost his predecessor Dunbar, who thus became his successor.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Frank Gardner first worked as a lawyer again. Since 1930 he was a judge in the Sixth Judicial District of Indiana. This office he held until his death on 1 February 1937 in Scottsburg.