Addison Crandall Gibbs

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Addison Crandall Gibbs

Addison Crandall Gibbs (born July 9, 1825 in Cattaraugus , Cattaraugus County , New York , † December 29, 1886 in London ) was an American politician and from 1862 to 1866 the second governor of the state of Oregon .

Early years and political advancement

Addison Gibbs local schools visited his home and the State Normal School in Albany . Then he studied law . During the Californian gold rush , Gibbs made his way to the gold fields there. In 1850 he moved to Gardiner , Oregon . There he became the head of a company that sold land on the Umpqua River . Gibbs bought land there himself. In 1853 he took part in an Indian war. In the same year he became head of customs in southern Oregon. In 1858 he moved to Portland , where he started working for a law firm.

Gibbs was originally a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1852 and 1853 he was a member of the territorial parliament. In 1860 he was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives after the constitution . In 1862 he joined the Republicans . His new party nominated him as a candidate for this year's gubernatorial election. After he had prevailed with 67.1 percent of the vote clearly against the Democrat John F. Miller, he became the second governor of the state of Oregon.

Governor of Oregon

Gibbs began his four-year term on September 10, 1862. During this time he introduced the system of lending convicts to industry. Prisoners could thus be used as cheap labor on the labor market. At the same time he re-established the state's militia. In 1864 he raised an infantry regiment against the will of the majority of the population at the request of the federal government and made it available to the Union for use in the civil war .

Gibbs' term ended on September 12, 1866. He then ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the US Senate . After serving as a prosecutor in the Fourth Judicial District of Oregon (1868–1872), he was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872 to the state attorney for Oregon. He then worked as a lawyer in Portland. He spent the last two years of his life in the British capital, London, where he sold American land to private investors. He died there in 1886. Addison Gibbs was married to Margaret W. Watkins, with whom he had seven children.

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