Eustace Gibson

Eustace Gibson

Eustace Gibson (born October 4, 1842 in Culpeper County , Virginia , † December 10, 1900 in Clifton Forge , Virginia) was an American politician . Between 1883 and 1887 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Eustace Gibson attended public schools in his home country. After completing a law degree and being admitted to the bar, he began to work in his new profession in 1861. During the Civil War he was a soldier in the Confederate States Army between 1861 and 1863 . In 1863 he had to quit military service because of an injury. At that point he had been a captain.

Gibson was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1867 and 1868 he was a delegate to meetings to revise the Virginia constitution. In 1871 he settled in Huntington , West Virginia, which was formed in 1863. Between 1877 and 1878 he was a member of the West Virginia House of Representatives ; In 1877 he was the successor to Alexander W. Monroe President of this Chamber.

1882 was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the newly created fourth district of West Virginia . There he took up his mandate on March 4, 1883. After a re-election in 1884, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1887 . From 1885 he was chairman of the Ministry of Justice's expenditure control committee. In 1886 Gibson was not nominated for another term by his party. In 1888 he tried again unsuccessfully for the nomination. In the years following his time in Congress, he returned to practice as a lawyer. Eustace Gibson died on December 10, 1900 in Clifton Forge and was buried in Huntington.

Web links

• Eustace Gibson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Eustace Gibson in the database of Find a Grave (English)