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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeHenry Richard GIBSON
(1837-1938)
GIBSON, Henry Richard,
(cousin of Charles Hopper Gibson), a Representative from Tennessee;
born on Kent Island, Queen Annes County, Md., December 24, 1837;
attended the common schools on Kent Island and at Bladensburg, Md.;
was graduated from Decker’s Academy at Bladensburg in 1858
and from Hobart College, Geneva, N.Y., in 1862; served in the
commissary department of the Union Army from March 1863 to July
1865; entered Albany (N.Y.) Law School in September 1865; was
admitted to the bar in December 1865 and commenced practice in
Knoxville, Tenn., in January 1866; moved to Jacksboro, Campbell
County, Tenn., in October 1866; appointed commissioner of claims by
Gov. William G. Brownlow in 1868; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1870; member of the State senate,
1871-1875; member of the State house of representatives, 1875-1877;
returned to Knoxville in 1876; founded the Knoxville Republican in
1879 and became its editor; appointed post-office inspector in
1881; became editor of the Knoxville Daily Chronicle in 1882;
appointed United States pension agent at Knoxville on June 22,
1883, and served until June 9, 1885; chancellor of the second
chancery division of Tennessee 1886-1894; professor of medical
jurisprudence in the Tennessee Medical College 1889-1906; author of
“Gibson’s Suits in Chancery” in 1891; elected as
a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the four succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1905); declined to be a
candidate for renomination in 1904; associate editor in 1896 and
associate reviser in 1918 of the “Code of Tennessee”;
retired from public life and resided in Washington, D.C., being
engaged as a writer and author and as a consulting editor of the
American and English Encyclopedia of Law and Practice; died in
Washington, D.C., May 25, 1938; remains were cremated and the ashes
deposited in the Old Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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