Archibald K. Gardner

Background

Gardner, Archibald K. was born on December 3, 1867 in Newton, Iowa, United States. Son of William T. and Charlotte (Davidson) Gardner.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, State University of Iowa, 1892, Bachelor of Laws, 1893, Doctor of Laws (honorary), 1947. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Huron College, 1929, Grinnell College, 1947.

Career

In 1892, he received an Bachelor of Arts from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. The following year, he procured an Bachelor of Laws from that same institution. From 1893 to 1895, he was engaged in the private practice of law in Greenfield in Dade County in southwestern Missouri.From 1895 to 1897, he practiced in Rapid City, South Dakota, where he was the city attorney from 1897 until 1904.

He was thereafter from 1907 to 1929 the general attorney for the South Dakota division of the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company.

On April 18, 1929, United States. President Herbert Hoover nominated Gardner to a new seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, created by 45 Statistics 1346.

Gardner was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 23, 1929, and received his commission on May 23, 1929.

He served as chief judge of the Eighth Circuit from 1948 to 1959. In 1957, Gardner assigned Ronald North. Davies of North Dakota to preside over the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas in Little Rock, Arkansas.

lieutenant was Davies whose orders led to the Little Rock Integration Crisis in which then Governor Orval Faubus made a vain attempt to stop the desegregation of Central High School in the Arkansas capital city.

Gardner assumed senior status on September 30, 1960, and thereafter served until his death in Huron in Beadle County in eastern South Dakota.

Achievements

• Archibald K. Gardner has been listed as a reputable judge. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American and South Dakot bar associations. Club: Rotary.

Connections

Married May McHard, October 15, 1896. Children: Ethel M., Helen C., William M. Began practice of law with Judge L. West. Shafer, Greenfield, Missouri.

Father:

William T. Gardner

Mother:

Charlotte (Davidson) Gardner

Spouse:

May McHard

child:

Mo Gardner

child:

William M. Began practice of law with Judge L. West. Shafer Gardner

child:

Helen C. Gardner

child:

Ethel M. Gardner

child:

Greenfield Gardner