Henry Brayton Gardner (March 26, 1863 – April 22, 1939) was an American economist. He was a faculty member at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

from 1890 until 1928, serving as the first Eastman Professor of Political Economy from 1919 to 1928.Martha Mitchell’s ''Encyclopedia Brunoniana''
/ref> In 1919, he served as president of the

American Economic Association The American Economic Association (AEA) is a learned society in the field of economics. It publishes several peer-reviewed journals acknowledged in business and academia. There are some 23,000 members. History and Constitution The AEA was esta ...

. A native of

Providence, Rhode Island Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay ...

, Gardner graduated from Brown in 1884 and received his PhD in economics from

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

in 1890.

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* 1863 births 1939 deaths American economists Johns Hopkins University alumni Brown University faculty Presidents of the American Economic Association {{US-economist-stub