Gideon Gardner
Gideon Gardner was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Born in Nantucket in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Gardner received a limited schooling.
Gardner was a successful ship master, and later became a shipowner.
Gardner also engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was reportedly owner of the Ganges when Gardner Island was discovered.
Gardner was elected as a Democratic-Republican Party to the Eleventh Congress.
He resumed his former business pursuits.
He was the bearer of a petition from the citizens of Nantucket to Congress for tax relief in 1813.
He died in Nantucket, Massachusetts, March 22, 1832.
He was interred in Friends Burying Ground.
Gardner was a direct descendant of Thomas Gardner.
