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  • Meredith Gardner
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  • Gardner was born in Okolona, Mississippi and grew up in Austin, Texas. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, he earned a Master's Degree in German from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was a teaching assistant from 1938 to 1940. He was a linguist and professor of German at the University of Akron when the United States Army's Signals Intelligence Service recruited him to work on breaking German codes. Soon after, he started working on the Japanese codes instead, mastering the Japanese language in only a few months.
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Birth Date
  • 1912-10-20
Residence
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  • Chevy Chase, Maryland
Spouse
  • Blanche Hatfield Gardner
Name
  • Meredith Knox Gardner
Ethnicity
  • Scottish American
Education
  • Master's Degree in languages
Years Active
  • retired–1972
Alma mater
  • University of Texas
  • University of Wisconsin
Employer
  • National Security Agency and its predecessors
Birth Place
  • Okolona, Mississippi
death date
  • 2002-08-09
Relations
  • cousin, Patrick Buchanan
Children
  • 11
  • daughter, Ann Martin
  • son, Arthur Hatfield Gardner
Occupation
Known For
  • decrypted Venona papers, leading to arrest of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Nationality
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  • Gardner was born in Okolona, Mississippi and grew up in Austin, Texas. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, he earned a Master's Degree in German from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was a teaching assistant from 1938 to 1940. He was a linguist and professor of German at the University of Akron when the United States Army's Signals Intelligence Service recruited him to work on breaking German codes. Soon after, he started working on the Japanese codes instead, mastering the Japanese language in only a few months.