Albert Gardiner

Albert Gardiner
Deputy Leader of the Labor Party
In office
14 November 1916 – 30 June 1926
LeaderFrank Tudor
Matthew Charlton
Preceded byGeorge Pearce
Succeeded byJames Scullin
Leader of the Opposition in the Senate
In office
17 February 1917 – 30 June 1926
Preceded byEdward Millen
Succeeded byTed Needham
Senator for New South Wales
In office
1 July 1910 – 30 June 1926
Preceded byJohn Neild
Succeeded byWalter Massy-Greene
In office
5 June 1928 – 16 November 1928
Preceded byJohn Grant
Succeeded byJohn Dooley
Personal details
Born(1867-07-30)30 July 1867
Orange, New South Wales
Died14 August 1952(1952-08-14) (aged 85)
Bondi Junction, New South Wales
NationalityAustralian
Political partyLabor
Spouses
Ada Jewell
(m. 1892⁠–⁠1897)
Theresa Clayton
(m. 1902)
OccupationGoldminer

Albert "Jupp" Gardiner (30 July 1867 – 14 August 1952) was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for New South Wales from 1910 to 1926 and again briefly in 1928. A member of the Labor Party, he served in cabinet as Vice-President of the Executive Council under Andrew Fisher and Billy Hughes, and from 1916 to 1926 was his party's Senate leader; he was its only senator from 1920 to 1922. Before entering federal politics he had served in the Parliament of New South Wales from 1891 to 1895 and from 1904 to 1907.

His first wife was a leading[peacock prose] Labor politician in New South Wales after they divorced.