Legacy and Impact
He was the brother of prominent Arkansas Reconstruction Judge Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, and the father of Thomas Van Renssalaer Gibbs, a delegate to the 1886 Florida Constitutional Convention, and a member of the Florida state legislature. Gibbs High School, the first high school in St. Petersburg for black students, is named after him. Gibbs Junior College (also in St. Petersburg) was named after him. The college now forms part of St. Petersburg College which has a Gibbs Campus.
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