W. Benjamin Gibbs

Willis Benjamin Gibbs (born April 15, 1889 in Du Pont , Clinch County , Georgia , †  August 7, 1940 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1939 and 1940 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Benjamin Gibbs attended public schools in his home country and then studied at Mercer University in Macon . After completing a law degree at the Atlanta Law School and being admitted to the bar in 1911, he began working in his new profession in Folkston . In 1912 he moved his residence and law firm to Jesup . Between 1913 and 1924 he was a public prosecutor at the local city court. He then served as a prosecutor in the Brunswick Judicial District between 1925 and 1939 . He also served as the Wayne County District Attorney from 1922 and 1938 . Gibbs served on the staff of Governor Clifford Walker in 1924 and 1925 . He also served on the Georgia State Charity Control Committee from 1931 to 1937.

Politically, Gibbs was a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1938 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the eighth constituency of Georgia, where he succeeded Braswell Deen on January 3, 1939 . Benjamin Gibbs could only take up his mandate until his death on August 7, 1940. Then his mandate fell to his wife Florence after a by-election .

Web links

• W. Benjamin Gibbs in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)