Moses S. Gibson | |
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Member of the Wisconsin Assembly | |
In office 1859–1859 | |
Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Wisconsin Territory | |
In office 1847–1848 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1816 Livingston County, New York, US |
Died | December 6, 1904 Washington, District of Columbia, US | (aged 87–88)
Spouse | Carrie F. Gilman (m. 1856) |
Moses S. Gibson (1816 - December 6, 1904) was an American banker from Hudson, Wisconsin, who served as a Representative in the last two sessions of the Legislative Assembly of the Wisconsin Territory, [1] as a member of the First Wisconsin Constitutional Convention, and was elected to a term in 1859 as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly after statehood, an election successfully contested by Marcus W. McCracken. [2] Gibson's political party affiliation is unknown. [3]
Gibson was born in 1816 in Livingston County, New York. [4] He settled in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, in 1844. [4] He was elected as a member of the First Wisconsin Constitutional Convention in 1846 and elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Wisconsin Territory in 1847 and 1848. [1] [4] In 1849, he moved to Hudson, Wisconsin, where he was appointed receiver of public moneys. [4] He married Carrie F. Gilman in 1856. [4] In 1859, he was elected to a term in the Wisconsin State Assembly. [4] [2] During the Civil War, he was appointed a paymaster and assigned to Missouri, and also became a major. [5] [4] In 1878, he was appointed a position in the sixth auditor's office of the treasury in the post office department. [4] He died on December 6, 1904, in Washington, D. C., [6] and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
In the State Assembly, Gibson was to represent the district which included the sparsely-populated Ashland, Burnett, Douglas, La Pointe, Polk, and St. Croix counties to succeed Republican James B. Gray. McCracken in turn was succeeded by Asaph Whittlesey, also a Republican.