Robert J. Gamble

Robert J. Gamble

Robert Jackson Gamble (born February 7, 1851 near Akron , Genesee County , New York , † September 22, 1924 in Sioux Falls , South Dakota ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Republican Party ) from the US state of South Dakota. He was the father of Ralph Abernethy Gamble and brother of John Rankin Gamble , both members of the US House of Representatives .

Career

His family moved to Fox Lake , Wisconsin in 1862 at the start of the American Civil War . He studied law at Lawrence University in Appleton , Wisconsin, where he graduated in 1874. He was admitted to the bar the following year and began practicing in Yankton , Dakota Territory , later South Dakota.

He became the District Attorney for the 2nd Judicial District of the Dakota Territory in 1880. He was also the Yankton district attorney in 1881 and 1882. He then became in 1885 a member of the Territorial Council ( Engl. Territorial Council ). A few years after South Dakota became the 40th state to join the Union (November 2, 1889), it was elected to the 54th US Congress in 1895 . He ran unsuccessfully for re-election in 1896, but was eventually re-elected to the 56th US Congress . During his second term he was the chairman of the now defunct US House Committee on Expenditures on the Public Buildings .

Gamble was elected to the US Senate in 1901 and re - elected in 1906. On his second attempt at re-election, however, he suffered a defeat and left office in March 1913. He was chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Depredations ( 57th US Congress ), chairman of the US Senate Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard ( 58th to 60th US Congress ), chairman of the US Senate Committee on Enrolled Bills ( 61st US Congress ) US Congress ) and Chair of the US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs ( 62nd US Congress ).

After serving in the US Senate, Gamble moved to Sioux Falls in 1915, where he practiced as a lawyer again. He then served as a bankruptcy expert in the Southern District of South Dakota from 1916 to 1924 . He was also a member of the National Executive Committee of the League to Enforce Peace . He died in Sioux Falls in 1924 and was then buried in Yankton Cemetery in Yankton, South Dakota.

Web links

• Robert J. Gamble in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)