Henry Gardner

Henry Joseph Gardner was the 23rd Governor of Massachusetts, serving from 1855 to 1858. Gardner, a Know Nothing, and was elected governor as part of the sweeping victory of Know Nothing candidates in the Massachusetts elections of 1854.

Henry Joseph Gardner was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts on June 14, 1819, to Henry Gardner and Clarissa Holbrook Gardner. His grandfather, also named Henry Gardner, was a wellrespected Harvard graduate, was politically active during the American Revolution and served as the states treasurer 177482. The younger Henry was first educated in private schools in the Boston area, and then attended Phillips Exeter Academy, from which he graduated in 1831. He then attended Bowdoin College, and embarked on a career as a dry goods merchant in Boston, a business in which he remained until 1876. In 1844 he married Helen Cobb of Portland, Maine they had seven children.

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