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Biography
Jonathan Catlett Gibson (1833 – after 1893) was a nineteenth-century American politician and soldier from Virginia.
Early life
Gibson was born in Culpeper County, Virginia in 1833. He graduated from the University of Virginia, 1850-51.
Career
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Gibson settled in his home county of Culpeper and practiced law there.
During the American Civil War, Gibson began as a major of the Confederate 49th Virginia Infantry, and was promoted to lieutenant colonel and to colonel during the war.
Following the war, he returned to farming pursuits in his native county.
In 1867, Gibson was elected to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868. A Conservative, he was one of two delegates elected from the northern Piedmont constitutional convention district made up of his home district of Fauquier County.
Gibson served in the House of Delegates from Culpeper County for the 1879/80 sessions, and then again in 1883/84 when the Conservatives swept both the House of Delegates and state Senate with overwhelming majorities.
Returning to the House of Delegate in 1889/90, Gibson was re-elected to the sessions of 1891/92 and 1893/94 during the Populist and Jim Crow era.
Death
Jonathan C. Gibson died after 1893.