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Gibbons, Charles

lawyer, state senator, was born March 30, 1814, in Wilmington, Del. He was for several years a member of the state senate and its president in 1847; chairman of the first republican state committee; one of the founders of the Union league; and the author of its constitution.

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EDWARD, soldier, merchant, state legislator, was born in England. He was a merchant in Boston, and a state representative during 1838-47. He served in the Mexican war during 1849-51 as major-general. He died Dec. 9, 1854, in Boston, Mass.

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