William Tudor Gardiner (12 June 1892-3 August 1953) was the Republican Governor of Maine from 2 January 1929 to 4 January 1933, succeeding Ralph Owen Brewster and preceding Louis J. Brann.
Biography[]
William Tudor Gardiner was born in Newton, Massachusetts in 1892, and he became a lawyer in 1917 and served as a US Army artilleryman during World War I. After the war, he established a legal practice in Portland, and he served in the State House from 1920 to 1926, as Governor of Maine from 1929 to 1933, and as a US Air Force staff officer during World War II. He died in a plane crash in 1953.