Francis Gardner (December 27, 1771 – June 25, 1835) was a United States Representative from New Hampshire. He was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, the son of the Rev. Francis Gardner (1736–1814). He graduated from Harvard University in 1793 and then studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice at Walpole, New Hampshire before moving to Keene in 1806.
Gardner was a solicitor of Cheshire County 1807–1820. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Tenth Congress (March 4, 1807 – March 3, 1809). He was not a candidate for reelection in 1808. He died in Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1835.
His sister Hannah was the wife of Congressman Abijah Bigelow, who served in the U.S. House of Representative from 1810 to 1815.
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