John S. Gibson

Who was John S. Gibson?

John Strickland Gibson was a U.S. Representative from Georgia.

Born near Folkston, Georgia, Gibson attended the common schools. He studied law by correspondence from La Salle Extension University, Chicago, Illinois. He was admitted to the bar in 1922 and commenced practice in Douglas, Georgia, in 1923. He served as solicitor of the city court of Douglas, Georgia from 1928 to 1934. He served as solicitor general of the Waycross judicial circuit from 1934 to 1940.

Gibson was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, and Seventy-ninth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1946. He resumed the practice of law. He died in Douglas, Georgia, October 19, 1960. He was interred in City Cemetery.

He was born in Charlton County on January 3, 1893, to William Owen Gibson and Julia Ann Vickery Gibson, and he was married to Bessie Thomas in April, 1917. After moving to Douglas, Georgia and graduating from Georgia State Normal College, he began his legal career at the office of George Mingledorff while he finished a correspondence course from LaSalle Extension University and prepared for the bar exam.