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Commonwealth Museum Secretary of the Commonwealth William Francis Galvin

Henry J. Gardner

Henry J. Gardner
Henry Joseph Gardner, 1818-1892
- Portrait by Jean Paul Selinger, 1890

Henry J. Gardner
Henry J. Gardner was born in Dorchester and was active in the local Whig Party in the early 1850s. In 1854, he won a landslide victory for the seat of Governor over Emory Washburn. He held the office for three years, and during this time enacted legislation on a wide-ranging agenda.