Early Life and Education
Born in Springfield, Missouri, Gibson was a sergeant in the United States Army from 1944 to 1946. He received an A.B. in 1949 from the University of Missouri, followed by a J.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law in 1952. He was in private practice of law in Kansas City, Missouri from 1952 to 1981.
Read more about this topic: John R. Gibson
Famous quotes containing the words early, life and/or education:
“At the earliest ending of winter,
In March, a scrawny cry from outside
Seemed like a sound in his mind.
He knew that he heard it,
A bird’s cry, at daylight or before,
In the early March wind.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn’t break and that the enemy’s did.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)