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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsAugustus Peabody GARDNER
(1865-1918)
GARDNER, Augustus Peabody,
(uncle of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.), a Representative from
Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., November 5, 1865; attended
St. Paul’s School, Concord, N.H., and was graduated from
Harvard University in 1886; studied law in Harvard Law School, but
never practiced, devoting himself to the management of his estate;
captain and assistant adjutant general on the staff of Gen. James
H. Wilson during the Spanish-American War; member of the State
senate 1900 and 1901; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh
Congress by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of United States Representative William H. Moody, and
reelected to the eight succeeding Congresses (November 4, 1902-May
15, 1917); resigned from Congress to enter the Army; chairman,
Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions (Fifty-ninth and
Sixtieth Congresses); during the First World War served at
Governors Island and in Macon, Ga., as colonel in the Adjutant
General’s Department, and later was transferred at his own
request to the One Hundred and Thirty-first Regiment, United States
Infantry, with the rank of major; died at Camp Wheeler, Macon, Ga.,
January 14, 1918; interment in Arlington National Cemetery.
Bibliography
Gardner, Augustus Peabody. Some Letters of Augustus Peabody
Gardner. Edited by Constance Gardner. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Co., 1920; Gardner, Constance. Augustus Peabody Gardner, Major,
United States National Guard, 1865-1918. Cambridge, Mass.: The
Riverside Press, privately printed, 1919.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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