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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyJohn James GARDNER
(1845-1921)
GARDNER, John James, a
Representative from New Jersey; born in Atlantic County, N.J.,
October 17, 1845; attended the common schools and the law school of
the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1866 and 1867; served in
the Sixth New Jersey Volunteers 1861-1865 and one year in the
United States Veteran Volunteers; engaged in the real estate and
insurance business; elected alderman of Atlantic City, N.J., in
1867; mayor of Atlantic City 1868-1872, 1874, and 1875; member of
the common council and coroner of Atlantic County in 1876; member
of the State senate 1878-1893, serving as its president in 1883;
engaged in agricultural pursuits; delegate to the Republican
National Convention in 1884; elected as a Republican to the
Fifty-third and to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1893-March 3, 1913); chairman, Committee on Labor (Fiftieth through
Sixty-first Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1912 to the Sixty-third Congress; resumed agricultural pursuits;
died in Indian Mills, Burlington County, N.J., February 7, 1921;
interment in Atlantic City Cemetery, Pleasantville, N.J.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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