Law, Education and Government
- John Gardner (Rhode Island) (1697-1764) Deputy Governor, Colony of Rhode Island
- John Gardner (Australian politician), Australian Liberal Party MP for the South Australian seat of Morialta since 2010
- John Gardner (delegate), (1747–1808), U.S. farmer, Rhode Island delegate to Continental Congress
- John Gardner (law) (born 1965), Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford and Fellow of University College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor, Yale Law School, Yale University
- John Dunn Gardner (1811–1903), British Member of Parliament, 1841 to 1847
- John Fentress Gardner (1912–1998), American author and educator
- John J. Gardner (1845–1921), American politician representing New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives, 1885 to 1893
- John W. Gardner (1912–2002), U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare during the Great Society, founder of Medicare and Public Broadcasting
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