George G. Gilbert

George G. Gilbert

George Gilmore Gilbert (born December 24, 1849 in Taylorsville , Kentucky , †  November 9, 1909 in Louisville , Kentucky) was an American politician . Between 1899 and 1907 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Gilbert attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1869 the Cecilian College and the Lyndland Institute . After that he worked as a teacher for some time. After a subsequent law degree at the University of Louisville and his 1873 admission as a lawyer, he began in Taylorsville to practice in this profession. Between 1876 and 1880 he was a prosecutor in Spencer County .

Politically, Gilbert became a member of the Democratic Party . He was a member of the Kentucky Senate from 1885 to 1889 . In July 1896 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , where William Jennings Bryan was first nominated as a presidential candidate. In the 1898 congressional election , Gilbert was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded Republican George M. Davison on March 4, 1899 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1907 .

In 1906 he decided not to run again. In the following years until his death, George Gilbert worked again as a lawyer. He died in Louisville on November 9, 1909. His son Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert (1882-1939) represented the state of Kentucky between 1921 and 1933 twice in Congress.

Web links

• George G. Gilbert in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George G. Gilbert in the database of Find a Grave (English)