John S. Gibson

John S. Gibson

John Strickland Gibson (born January 3, 1893 in Folkston , Charlton County , Georgia , †  October 19, 1960 in Douglas , Georgia) was an American politician . Between 1941 and 1947 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Gibson attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree at La Salle Extension University in Chicago and his admission as a lawyer in 1922, he began to work in Douglas in his new profession. From 1928 to 1934 he was a district attorney at the Douglas Municipal Court. He then carried out the same activity in the judicial district of Waycross between 1934 and 1940 .

Politically, Gibson was a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1940 congressional election , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the eighth constituency of Georgia , where he succeeded Florence Reville Gibbs on January 3, 1941 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1947 . These were determined by the events of the Second World War and its immediate consequences. In 1944 Gibson played a key role in the adoption of the so-called GI Bill .

For the elections of 1946 , John Gibson was no longer nominated by his party for another legislative period. In the following years until his death on October 19, 1960 he worked again as a lawyer. Since 1917 he was married to Bessie Thomas.

Web links

• John S. Gibson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John S. Gibson in the database of Find a Grave (English)