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GIBSON, HENRY RICHARD<\/strong>, lawyer, lecturer, author; born Queen Anne’s Co., Md., Dec. 24, 1837; English descent; son of Woolman and Catherine (Carter) GIBSON<\/strong>; educated Bladensburg, Md., Geneva, and Albany, N.Y.; graduated from Hobart College, Geneva, N.Y., with degrees A.B., A.M., and L.L.D., 1862, 1882, and 1892, respectively; married Frances M. REED<\/strong>, Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 1863; former U.S. Postoffice Inspector 1881-2, to investigate alleged frauds in postal service on Mississippi River, and in mail routes west of the Rocky Mountains, U.S. Pension Agent Knoxville, Tenn., 1883-5; Editor of Knoxville Republican 1879-1883, and of Knoxville Daily Chronicle 1883-4; author of Gibson’s “Suits in Chancery,” and “The Maid of Redenfayn”; Consulting editor of American and English Encyclopedia of Law and Practice; Professor of Medical Jurisprudence for last twenty-two years in Tenn., Medical College, and Lincoln Memorial University at Knoxville, Tenn.; Republican; former Co. Claims Commissioner, 1868; in 1870 delegate to State Constitutional convention; 1871-1872 State Senator; 1875-6 Representative in State Legislature; 1886-1894 Chancellor of Second Division of Tenn.; 1895-1905 Congressman from Second District Tenn.; Commissary Department U.S.A. March 1863 to July 1865; Republican nominee for Presidential elector in 1872 and 1880.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Knoxville GIBSON, HENRY RICHARD, lawyer, lecturer, author; born Queen Anne’s Co., Md., Dec. 24, 1837; English descent; son of Woolman and Catherine (Carter) GIBSON; educated Bladensburg, Md., Geneva, and Albany, N.Y.; graduated from Hobart College, Geneva, N.Y., with degrees A.B., A.M., and L.L.D., 1862, 1882, and 1892, respectively; married Frances M. REED, Brooklyn, N.Y., […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[276,3203,4411,4419],"tags":[4327,4337,140],"class_list":{"0":"post-5051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-knox","7":"category-lincoln-memorial-university","8":"category-surname-g","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-carter","11":"tag-gibson","12":"tag-reed","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15137,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions\/15137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}