Thomas Van Renssalaer Gibbs

Thomas Van Renssalaer Gibbs

Thomas Van Renssalaer Gibbs (1855–1898) was nominated to West Point by black Representative Josiah Walls.[1] He was a politician and a member of the 1885 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.[2] 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

  1. ↑ Allman, T.D. (2013). Finding Florida. The True History of the Sunshine State. Atlantic Monthly Press. p. 260. ISBN 9780802120762.
  2. ↑ Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University-About The University
  • Canter Brown, Jr. Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867-1924. Tuscaloosa and London: The University of Alabama Press, 1998.


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