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'''Terry Lamar Gardner''', known as '''TG Gardner''' (born May 18, 1954),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/terry-gardner/e307815533226|title=Terry Gardner, Minden, Louisiana|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=November 28, 2018}}</ref> is a [[business]]man who is the [[Republican Party|Republican]] 56th [[mayor]] of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], [[Louisiana]]. A [[Republican Party|Republican]], he is only the fourth member of his party to hold the position since 1966. A victor by thirty-seven votes in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on November 6, 2018, Gardner assumes assumed office on January 1December 27, 20192018.
A native of [[Shreveport]], where his mother was highly engaged in political activism, Gardner moved to Minden at the age of twenty-four in 1978, to take a position with the tobacco company, Philip Morris USA.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://press-herald.com/meet-mayor-elect-terry-gardner-looking-forward/|title=Meet Mayor-elect Terry Gardner Looking Forward|publisher=''The Minden Press-Herald''|author=Juliuna Anderson|date=December 3, 2018}}</ref><ref name=ksla/> Gardner is the only mayor of Minden who previously lost three races for the city council before becoming mayor. In 2003, running as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], he lost a council race to incumbent Republican Robert Drew White (born October 28, 1966), the son of a former Minden city attorney and the grandson of a state representative descended from one of the earliest families in Webster Parish. In 2006, still a Democrat, he lost the council race to Republican Marvin Thomas "Tommy" Davis (born September 29, 1942), his predecessor as mayor. In 2014, running for the first time as a Republican, Gardner was defeated, 64 to 36 percent, by fellow Republican Michael Scott "Mike" Toland (born October 28, 1959), who did not seek reelection to the council in 2018.
