Eustace Gibson

Eustace Gibson ( born October 4, 1842 Culpeper County, Virginia; † December 10, 1900 in Clifton Forge, Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1887 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Eustace Gibson attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began in 1861 to work in his new profession. During the Civil War he was 1861-1863 Soldier in the Army of the Confederate States. In 1863, he had to acknowledge his military service after an injury. At this time he had been captain.

Gibson was a member of the Democratic Party. During 1867 and 1868 he was a delegate at meetings to revise the State Constitution of Virginia. In 1871 he settled in Huntington in 1863 created West Virginia State. Between 1877 and 1878 he sat in the House of Representatives from West Virginia; In 1877 he was president of this chamber.

1882 in the newly created fourth district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1883 at his office. After a re-election in 1884 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1887 two legislative sessions. Since 1885 he was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Department of Justice. In 1886, Gibson was not nominated by his party for another term. In 1888 he unsuccessfully sought the nomination again at. In the years after his time in Congress, he again worked as a lawyer. Eustace Gibson died on December 10, 1900 in Clifton Forge, and was buried in Huntington.