Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert

Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert ( born January 17, 1882 in Taylorsville, Kentucky; † 30 July 1939 in Louisville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1921 and 1933 he represented two times the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ralph Gilbert was the son of George G. Gilbert (1849-1909), who represented 1899-1907 the state of Kentucky in Congress. The younger Gilbert attended the common schools and then studied at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Louisville and his 1901 was admitted to the bar he began in Shelbyville to work in this profession. Between 1910 and 1917 he served as District Judge in Shelby County.

Politically, Gilbert member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1920 he was in the eighth election district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican King Swope on March 4, 1921. After three re- elections, he was able to complete 1929 four contiguous legislatures in Congress until March 3. In the elections of 1928 he was defeated Republican Lewis L. Walker. Instead, he was elected in 1929 in the House of Representatives from Kentucky.

In the elections of 1930, Gilbert was able to regain his former seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Thus he was able to spend a further term of between 4 March 1931 to 3 March 1933. In 1932 he gave up another candidacy. He then worked again as a lawyer. In his home state of Kentucky Gilbert remained politically active. In 1933 he was again a deputy in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. From 1936 until his death on 30 July 1939, he was sitting in the State Senate. He was buried in Shelbyville.