Robert Brian Gibbs was born on June 14,1954 and is an American farmer and politician who served as the US representative for from 2011 to 2023.
18 Facts About Bob Gibbs
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Bob Gibbs's family moved to Cleveland in the 1960s, and Gibbs graduated from Bay Village Senior High School.
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Bob Gibbs served as president of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, Ohio's largest agriculture organization.
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Bob Gibbs first joined the Ohio Farm Bureau board of trustees in 1985.
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Bob Gibbs served as a board member of the Farm Bureau Bank, the Ohio Livestock Coalition, the Ohio Cooperative Council, and the Ohio Farm Bureau Alliance.
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Bob Gibbs was president of the Loudonville Farmers Equity Company in Loudonville, Ohio, where he served on the board for 12 years.
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Bob Gibbs was elected to the Ohio General Assembly in 2002, defeating Democrat Tom Mason of Ashland for a newly drawn district in the Ohio House.
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Bob Gibbs was reelected in 2004 in a rematch against Mason.
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In 2009, Bob Gibbs ran for Ohio Senate to fill the seat vacated by state senator Ron Amstutz due to term limits.
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In 2006 Bob Gibbs was appointed a member of the special task force to study eminent domain and its use and application in Ohio.
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Bob Gibbs won election to the Ohio Senate in 2008, and began his first term in 2009.
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Bob Gibbs faced Democratic incumbent Zack Space and Constitution Party nominee Lindsey Sutton in the general election.
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Bob Gibbs won the Republican primary in an 8-way field.
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In 2018, Bob Gibbs was supported by the Great America Committee, a political action committee registered by Vice President Mike Pence.
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In 2015, Bob Gibbs cosponsored a resolution to amend the US constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
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In December 2020, Gibbs was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden defeated incumbent Donald Trump.
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On January 7,2021, Bob Gibbs objected to the certification of the 2020 presidential election results in Congress based on false claims of voter fraud.
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In September 2021, Bob Gibbs introduced a resolution to impeach Biden for his handling of United States-Mexico border security, his extension of the federal COVID-19 eviction moratorium, and his handling of the withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan.