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Gibson, Charles Hopper

lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Jan. 19, 1842, in Queen Anne county, Md. In 1869 he was appointed auditor and commissioner in chancery; in 1870 resigned to accept the office of state's attorney for Talbot county, Md., to which he was appointed by the court, and was elected to the office, in 1871, for a full term, and was re-elected in 1875. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Maryland to the forty-ninth congress, and was re-elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a democrat. In 1891-97 he was a United States senator.