Lucien D. Gardner
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Lucien Dunbidden Gardner (November 28, 1876 – November 2, 1952) was a justice of the Alabama Supreme Court from 1914 to 1951. He served as chief justice of the
Gardner was an alumnus of
He was elected to the
In an anti-miscegenation case ruling in Alabama, Gardner stated that "It is reprehensible enough for a white man to live in adultery with a white woman thus defying the laws of God and man, but it is more so, and a much lower grade of depravity, for a white man to live in adultery with a Negro woman." [2]
During
He married Henrietta Wiley of Troy, Alabama.[1] His son, Lucien D. Gardner, Jr., grandson, William F. Gardner, and great-grandson, Robert T. Gardner, also became lawyers. Gardner was a Baptist.
Gardner died in a hospital in Montgomery, Alabama, at the age of 76, following a period of ill health, and six months after the death of his wife.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Lucien Gardner Dies In Capital", The Dothan Eagle (November 3, 1952), p. 1.
- ISBN 9781604732474.
- ISBN 087049435X