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GIBBONS, Sam Melville (1920-2012)

Democrat of Florida

11th congressional district

Served in House 1963-1997

Total roll-call votes cast: 13,424

Biography

Representative from Florida; born in Tampa, Hillsborough County, Fla., January 20, 1920; attended the University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.; LL.B., University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla., 1947; admitted to the Florida bar in 1947; lawyer, private practice; United States Army, the Five Hundred and First Parachute Infantry, One Hundred and First Airborne Division, 1941-1945, participated in the Normandy invasion; member of the Florida state house of representatives, 1953-1958; member of the Florida state senate, 1959-1962; delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1964, 1968 and 1984; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1997); chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (One Hundred Third Congress); was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fifth Congress in 1996; died on October 10, 2012, in Tampa, Fla.; interment at Myrtle Hill Memorial Park, Tampa, Fla.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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