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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaFlorence Reville GIBBS
(1890-1964)
GIBBS, Florence Reville,
(wife of Willis Benjamin Gibbs), a Representative from Georgia;
born in Thomson, McDuffie County, Ga., April 4, 1890; attended the
public schools; was graduated from Brenau College, Gainesville,
Ga.; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth Congress to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Willis Benjamin
Gibbs, and served from October 1, 1940, to January 3, 1941; was not
a candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress;
retired from public life and resided in Jesup, Ga., until her death
there August 19, 1964; interment in Jesup Cemetery.
Bibliography
”Florence Reville Gibbs” in Women in Congress,
1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of the Committee on
House Administration by the Office of History & Preservation,
U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing
Office, 2006.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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