Early Life and Education
Gibbons was born in Tampa, Florida on January 20, 1920. He graduated from H. B. Plant High School, where he was part of JROTC, and then went on to the University of Florida. After serving as an officer in the 101st Airborne during World War II, including landing behind enemy lines on D-Day, Gibbons attended the University of Florida School of Law, graduating in 1947. Gibbons joined four generations of his family practicing law in Tampa. He went on to marry Martha Hanley, and have three sons; Clifford Sam, Mark Hanley, and Timothy Melville. After 55 years of marriage, Martha died of cancer in 2002; Sam then married his old high school sweetheart Betty King Culbreath.
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