{{Short description|American politician }} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} '''Prince Gardner''' was a state legislator in Alabama. He served in the Alabama House of Representatives in 1874 until he was unseated.
In 1872 he was documented as a teacher in Barbour County.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3LEPAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22prince+gardner%22+alabama&pg=RA4-PA11|title=Legislative Documents|first=Alabama|last=Legislature|date=August 1, 1873|via=Google Books}}</ref> He was a leader of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) church in Russell County, Alabama.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8PCI20OHCz0C&dq=prince+gardner+russell.county+alabama&pg=PA131|title=Neither Carpetbaggers Nor Scalawags: Black Officeholders During the Reconstruction of Alabama, 1867-1878|first=Richard|last=Bailey|date=January 1, 2010|publisher=NewSouth Books|isbn=9781588381897 |via=Google Books}}</ref> He served in the Alabama House of Representatives in 1874.<ref>{{cite news |title=House of Representatives (1874) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107123492/house-of-representatives-1874/ |access-date=7 August 2022 |work=The Montgomery Advertiser |date=17 November 1874 |pages=2}}{{Open access}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nv9mBgAAQBAJ&dq=%22prince+gardner%22+alabama&pg=PA151|title=The Scalawag In Alabama Politics, 1865–1881|first=Sarah Woolfolk|last=Wiggins|date=July 30, 1977|publisher=University of Alabama Press|isbn=9780817305574 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gmDZAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22prince+gardner%22+alabama&pg=PA72|title=A History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church: Being a Volume Supplemental to a History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church|first1=Charles Spencer|last1=Smith|first2=Daniel Alexander|last2=Payne|date=August 1, 1922|publisher=Johnson Reprint|via=Google Books}}</ref> representing Russell County, Alabama.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qq0TAAAAYAAJ&dq=a.+h.+curtis+russell+county+alabama&pg=PA669 | title=Report ... To Inquire ... Whether in and of the Elections in the State of Alabama in the Elections of 1874, 1875, and 1876 the Right of Male Inhabitants ... To Vote Had Been Denied or Abridged | year=1877 | publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office }}</ref>
He and D. J. Daniels, an African American, were unseated.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4GdBAQAAMAAJ&dq=prince+gardner+russell.county+alabama&pg=PA563|title=Journal|first=Alabama Legislature House of|last=Representatives|date=August 1, 1876|via=Google Books}}</ref> Petitioners contesting their election states that 1,500 of their votes were illegal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4GdBAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22prince+gardner%22+alabama&pg=PA256|title=Journal|first=Alabama Legislature House of|last=Representatives|date=August 1, 1876|via=Google Books}}</ref> Allen E. Williams, Edward Odum, and Adam Gachet, representatives of Barbour County, Alabama, were also ousted from the Alabama House of Representatives.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wHIOAQAAMAAJ&q=%22prince+gardner%22+alabama|title=They Too Call Alabama Home: African American Profiles, 1800-1999|first=Richard|last=Bailey|date=August 1, 1999|publisher=Pyramid Pub.|isbn=9780967188300 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
He was a signatory on a Memorial of the Republican Members of the Legislature of Alabama to the Congress of the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qq0TAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22prince+gardner%22+alabama&pg=PA669|title=Report ... to Inquire ... Whether in and of the Elections in the State of Alabama in the Elections of 1874, 1875, and 1876 the Right of Male Inhabitants ... to Vote Had Been Denied Or Abridged|first=United States Congress Senate Committee on Privileges and|last=Elections|date=August 1, 1877|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|via=Google Books}}</ref>
==See also== *Election Riot of 1874 *African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900
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