Postbellum Career
Gibson served Louisiana as a Democrat in the House of Representatives from 1875 to 1883; at the freshman's prompting on December 10, 1875, the Committee on the Mississippi Levees was created to inquire into building and repairing levees. The committee's name was changed to the Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River on November 7, 1877. He also served as a senator from 1883 to 1892. He died while still a senator in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and is buried at Lexington Cemetery in Lexington, Kentucky.
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