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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeGeorge Gibbs DIBRELL
(1822-1888)
DIBRELL, George Gibbs, a
Representative from Tennessee; born in Sparta, White County, Tenn.,
April 12, 1822; attended the public schools, and was graduated from
the East Tennessee University, Knoxville, Tenn., in 1843; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1843 and practiced; engaged in
agricultural and mercantile pursuits; justice of the peace and
county court clerk of White County, Tenn., for many years; member,
State house of representatives, 1861; volunteered in the
Confederate Army and served from 1861 to 1865; rose from private to
lieutenant colonel of Infantry and colonel of Cavalry, and was
discharged as brigadier general; delegate to the State’s
constitutional convention in 1870; elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1875-March 3, 1885); was not a candidate for renomination in 1884;
resumed agricultural and mercantile pursuits; died in Sparta,
Tenn., May 9, 1888; interment in the Old Sparta Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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