Background
Gardner, Frank was born on May 8, 1872 in Scott County, Indiana, United States. Son of William and Eliza J. (Ray) Gardner.
United States representative politician
Gardner, Frank was born on May 8, 1872 in Scott County, Indiana, United States. Son of William and Eliza J. (Ray) Gardner.
He graduated from the Borden Institute, Clark County, Indiana, in 1896 and from the law department of Indiana University in 1900.
He was admitted to the bar in 1900 and started practicing law in Scottsburg, Indiana. Gardner was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-Eighth Congress in 1922. His predecessor in the district, Republican James West. Dunbar, had chosen not to run for reelection.
Gardner was reelected to the Sixty-Ninth and Seventieth Congresses (March 4, 1925 – March 3, 1929).
In 1928, James West. Dunbar ran for election to his former seat and defeated Gardner. Gardner resumed practicing law in Scottsburg, Indiana.
In 1930 he was elected judge of the sixth judicial circuit of Indiana in 1930. He was reelected in 1936 and served until his death in Scottsburg, Indiana, on February 1, 1937.
He was interred in Scottsburg Cemetery.
He was the auditor of Scott County from 1903 to 1911, the county attorney from 1911, a member of the Democratic county committee and its chairman from 1912 to 1922, and a field examiner for the State Board of Accounts from 1911 to 1920.
Married Bertha A. Warner, October 15, 1908.