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Affiliation | Democratic |
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Name | Sam M. Gibbons |
Address | Tampa, Florida , United States |
Email | None |
Website | None |
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January 20, 1920
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Died | October 10, 2012
(92 years)
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Contributor | User 490 |
Last Modifed | RBH May 24, 2016 08:13pm |
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Info | A Representative from Florida; born in Tampa, Hillsborough County, Fla., January 20, 1920; attended the public schools of Tampa; attended the University of Florida and from the law school of that university received his LL.B. in 1947; was admitted to the bar in 1947 and began the practice of law in Tampa; served in the United States Army with the Five Hundred and First Parachute Infantry, One Hundred and First Airborne Division, 1941 to 1945, and was released from active duty as a major; awarded the Bronze Star; served in the State house of representatives, 1953-1958, and in the State senate, 1959-1962; delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1964, 1968 and 1984; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1997); chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (One Hundred Third Congress); was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fifth Congress.
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