Thomas Van Renssalaer Gibbs
Thomas Van Renssalaer Gibbs (1855–1898) was a politician and a member of the 1886 Florida Constitutional Convention. He was elected to the Florida House of Representatives.
Gibbs was a cofounder of Florida A&M College, and served as its Vice President until his death in 1898.[1] The only son of Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, Thomas married Alice Menard, the daughter of politician John Willis Menard, in 1868 the first black person elected to Congress.
References
- Canter Brown, Jr. Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867-1924. Tuscaloosa and London: The University of Alabama Press, 1998.
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