Background
Tyler, David Gardiner was born on July 12, 1846 in East Hampton, Long Island, New York, United States. Son of John Tyler (10th President United States) and Julia (Gardiner) Tyler.
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Tyler, David Gardiner was born on July 12, 1846 in East Hampton, Long Island, New York, United States. Son of John Tyler (10th President United States) and Julia (Gardiner) Tyler.
Student, Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), 1862-1863. Served in college company in C.S.A., 1863-1864, in 1st Virginia Artillery, 1864-1865. Student Carlsruhe, Baden, Germany, 1865-1867.
Graduate law school, Washington College, 1869.
Although born in New York, he went to school in Virginia and fought in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. After attending college in Germany and Virginia, he became a lawyer He was named after his late maternal grandfather, David Gardiner.
He was present at the surrender of Robert East. Lee at Appomattox Court House.
He returned to the United States, and graduated from the Washington and Lee School of Law in 1869. From 1870 to 1884, he practiced law in Richmond, Virginia, before accepting an appointment as Director of the state lunatic asylum in Williamsburg, Virginia, serving until 1887.
From 1891 to 1892, he served in the Virginia State Senate, and on the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives from the state"s 2nd District, serving from 1893 to 1897.
He was defeated for renomination in 1896, and returned to private law practice until his reelection to the state senate, where he served from 1900 to 1904.
From 1904 until his death, he served as a state circuit court judge. He died at Sherwood Forest Plantation and is buried at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond. Elections
1892; Tyler was elected to the United States. House of Representatives defeating Independent Republicans Professional Corporation Garrigan and John F. Deyendorf, High School Collier, and Independent George Edwin Bowden, winning 55.61% of the vote.
1894.
Tyler was re-elected defeating Republican Thomas R. Borland and Independent T.J. Edwards, winning 56.27% of the vote.
He later served in the Virginia State Senate, as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia"s second congressional district, and as a Virginia Circuit Court judge. In 1862, he entered present-day Washington and Lee University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, but dropped out the following year to fight in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.
Married Mary Morris Jones, June 6, 1894.