Robert J. Gamble
Robert Jackson Gamble ( * February 7, 1851 near Akron, Genesee County, New York, † September 22, 1924 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota) was an American lawyer and politician ( Republican) from the U.S. state of South Dakota. He was the father of Ralph Abernethy Gamble and brother of John Rankin Gamble, both deputies in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
His family moved in 1862 to the beginning of the American Civil War to Fox Lake, Wisconsin. He studied law at the Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, where he graduated in 1874. In the following year he was admitted to the bar and then began in Yankton, Dakota Territory, South Dakota later to practice on.
He became in 1880 the district attorney for the second judicial district of Dakota Territory. He was also in the years 1881 and 1882 Attorney in Yankton. After that, he was in 1885 a member of the territorial council (English Territorial Council). Some years after South Dakota was admitted as 40th state in the Union (2 November 1889), he was elected in 1895 in the 54th U.S. Congress. He ran unsuccessfully for re-election in 1896, but was eventually re-elected to the 56th U.S. Congress. During his second tenure, he was the chairman of the now-defunct U.S. House Committee on Expenditures on the Public Buildings.
Gamble was in 1901 elected to the U.S. Senate in 1906 and re-elected. On his second re-election attempt, however, he suffered a defeat and retired in March 1913 from the Office. He was the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian depredations (57th Congress ), chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard ( 58th to 60th Congress ), chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Enrolled Bills ( 61. U.S. Congress ) and chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs ( 62nd Congress ).
After his time in the U.S. Senate Gamble moved to Sioux Falls in 1915, where he practiced as a lawyer again. Then he was from 1916 to 1924 worked as an expert for bankruptcy in the Southern District of South Dakota. He was also a member of the National Executive Committee of the League to Enforce Peace. He died in 1924 in Sioux Falls and was then buried in the Yankton Cemetery, Yankton, South Dakota.