John I. Gilbert

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John Ingersoll Gilbert (October 11, 1837 Pittsford, Rutland County, Vermont – December 19, 1904) was an American politician from New York.

Life

He attended Castleton Seminary, North Granville Academy, and Barre Academy, and graduated from the University of Vermont in 1859. Then he taught school. He was Principal of the Royalton Academy for two years, and of the Franklin Academy in Malone for six years. He also studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Malone.

Gilbert was a member of the New York State Assembly (Franklin Co.) in 1876, 1877 and 1878.

He was a member of the New York State Senate (20th D.) in 1884 and 1885. He was a delegate to the 1884 Republican National Convention.

At the New York state election, 1889 he ran for Secretary of State of New York, but was defeated by Democrat Frank Rice. Gilbert was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1894.

Sources

  • [https://archive.org/stream/newyorkredbook00unkngoog#page/n469/mode/1up The New York Red Book] compiled by Edgar L. Murlin (published by James B. Lyon, Albany NY, 1897; pg. 403 and 497f)
  • [http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/indiana-university-of-pennsylvania/the-evening-journal--almanac-volume-1885-nsl/page-32-the-evening-journal--almanac-volume-1885-nsl.shtml Biographical sketches of the Members of the Legislature] in The Evening Journal Almanac (1885)
  • [http://www.onlinebiographies.info/ny/fra/gilbert-ji.htm Bio] transcribed from Historical Sketches of Franklin County by Frederick J. Seaver (1918)

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{{succession box | before = John P. Badger | title = New York State Assembly
Franklin County | years = 1876–1878 | after = William D. Brennan}}

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{{succession box | before = Dolphus S. Lynde | title = New York State Senate
20th District | years = 1884–1885 | after = Charles L. Knapp}}

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Category:1837 births

Category:1904 deaths

Category:Republican Party New York (state) state senators

Category:People from Malone, New York

Category:Republican Party members of the New York State Assembly

Category:University of Vermont alumni

Category:People from Pittsford, Vermont

Category:19th-century members of the New York State Legislature