A. C. Gibbs
Addison Crandall Gibbs ( born July 9, 1825 Cattaraugus, Cattaraugus County, New York; † 29 December 1886 in London ) was an American politician and from 1862 to 1866, the second Governor of the State of Oregon.
Early years and political rise
Addison Gibbs attended the local schools of his home and the State Normal School in Albany. He then studied law. During the California Gold Rush, also Gibbs made his way to the California gold fields. In 1850 he moved to Gardiner in the Oregon Territory. There he was director of a company that sold land on the Umpqua River. Gibbs earned themselves there and country. In 1853 he took part in an Indian war. In the same year he became head of the customs authority in southern Oregon. In 1858 he moved to Portland, where he went into a law firm.
Gibbs was originally a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1852 and 1853 he was a deputy in the territorial parliament. In 1860 he was elected after the founding of the state in the House of Representatives of Oregon. In 1862 he stepped over to the Republicans. His new party nominated him as a candidate for the gubernatorial elections this year. After he had clearly prevailed with 67.1 percent of the vote against Democrat John F. Miller, he became the second Governor of the State of Oregon.
Governor of Oregon
Gibbs began his four -year term on 10 September 1862. During this time he introduced the rental system of convicts to the industry. Prisoners could therefore be used as cheap labor in the labor market. At the same time he founded the Militia of the State of New. In 1864 he raised against the will of the majority of the population at the request of the Federal Government of an infantry regiment of the Union and set it for use in the Civil War available.
Gibbs' term of office ended on 12 September 1866. Thereafter, he applied unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate. After a period as a prosecutor in the fourth judicial district of Oregon (1868-1872), he was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872 to the United States Attorney for Oregon. He then worked as a lawyer in Portland. He spent his last two years of life in the British capital London, where he sold American country to private investors. He is also passed in 1886. Addison Gibbs was married to Margaret W. Watkins, with whom he had seven kids.