1. Charles Gibbons attended Barboursville Baptist College with the intention on becoming a teacher.
10 Facts About Charles Gibbons
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In 1940, Charles Gibbons was an unsuccessful candidate for the Stoneham, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen.
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Charles Gibbons ran again the following year and was elected easily.
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Charles Gibbons soon became a major figure in state Republican politics.
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The Republicans lost control of the House in 1955 and Charles Gibbons spent the next two years as Minority Leader.
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In 1956, Gibbons was the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, but lost to Robert F Murphy.
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In 1958, following the death of the Republicans' only gubernatorial candidate, George Fingold, Charles Gibbons ran for the party's nomination as a write-in candidate.
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On May 8,1964, Charles Gibbons was indicted on 23 counts of accepting bribes during his tenure as Commissioner of Administration and Finance.
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Charles Gibbons was one of twenty-six people indicted by a special grand jury investigating corruption.
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Two days after the charges against him were dropped, Charles Gibbons, who had been in ill health for some time, entered the hospital.