Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Charles Reese Gibson

Full Name: Charles Reese Gibson
Birth date: June 21, 1842
Death date: October 22, 1925

Terms of Service

House, 18th ⁽³⁾ Legislature
1/9/1883 - 1/13/1885
Democrat
Speaker
House, 17th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ Legislature
1/11/1881 - 1/9/1883
Democrat
House, 16th ⁽²⁾ Legislature
1/14/1879 - 1/11/1881
Democrat

(1) Democrat, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News .
(2) Democrat, 1/14/1879, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
(3) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas 1883.
(4) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

39th Legislature, 1st C.S., 9/21/1926, p. 362. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

Photograph. Charles Reese Gibson, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006
Photograph. C.R. Gibson, Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Photograph. C.R. Gibson, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Biographical sketch. American Legislative Leaders, 1850-1910 1989.
C.R. Gibson, birth date 6/21/1842, death date 10/22/1925, portrait, burial in Waxahachie City Cemetery, Ellis County. Find a Grave .
GIBSON, CHARLES REESE (1842-1925). Handbook of Texas Online .
Confederate States Army, Sergeant Major, Company F, 16th Alabama Infantry. Handbook of Texas Online .
27th Speaker of the House of Representatives: Charles Reese Gibson. Photo and biographical sketch. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016 2016.
Biographical sketch, p. 264. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.
Biographical sketch, p. 248. "He [Gibson] has always been a democrat." Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.