Biography

11/27/1882 - 03/08/1934

GIBBON, James G., a Representative from Luzerne County; born in Drifton, Luzerne County, Pa., November 27, 1882; coal miner; shoe salesman; elected, council, Wilkes-Barre (1912-1913); sales director, Wales Adding Machine Company, Wilkes-Barre (1914-1926); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1921 and 1923 terms; resigned from the House, December 31, 1923; elected, city commissioner, Wilkes-Barre (1923-1927); died, March 8, 1934 in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; interred, Oaklawn Cemetery, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.