George G. Gilbert

George Gilmore Gilbert ( born December 24, 1849 in Taylorsville, Kentucky, † November 9, 1909 in Louisville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1899 and 1907 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Gilbert attended the public schools of his home and then to 1869 the Cecilian College and the Lyndland Institute. He then worked for some time as a teacher. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Louisville and his 1873 was admitted to the bar, he began practicing in Taylorsville in this profession. Between 1876 and 1880 he was a prosecutor in Spencer County.

Politically, Gilbert was a member of the Democratic Party. From 1885 to 1889 he sat in the Senate from Kentucky. In July 1896 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, was first nominated on the William Jennings Bryan as their presidential candidate. In the congressional elections of 1898 Gilbert in the eighth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC was chosen, where he became the successor of Republican George M. Davison on March 4, 1899. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1907 four legislative sessions.

In 1906 he opted not to run again. In the following years until his death George Gilbert again worked as a lawyer. He died on November 9, 1909 in Louisville. His son Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert (1882-1939) representing the State of Kentucky 1921-1933 twice in Congress.