Augustus P. Gardner

Augustus Peabody Gardner (November 5, 1865-January 14, 1918) was a Representative from Massachusetts.

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1886. He studied law in Harvard Law School, but never practiced, instead devoting himself to the management of his estate. He was a captain and assistant adjutant general on the staff of General James Wilson during the Spanish-American War

He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1900 and 1901, and was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh Congress by special election, after resignation of United States Representative William H. Moody. He was reelected to the eight succeeding Congresses (November 4, 1902 – May 15, 1917). He was the chairman of the Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions during the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses.

Gardner resigned from Congress to enter the army. During the First World War, he served at Governors Island. He was 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.

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