Sam Gibbons

A Representative from Florida. Born in Tampa, Hillsborough County, Fla. , January 20, 1920. Attended the University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. LL. B. , University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. , 1947. Admitted to the Florida bar in 1947. Lawyer, private practice. United States Army, the Five Hundred and First Parachute Infantry, One Hundred and First Airborne Division, 1941-1945, participated in the Normandy invasion. Member of the Florida state house of representatives, 1953-1958. Member of the Florida state senate, 1959-1962. Delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1964, 1968 and 1984. Elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1997). Chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (One Hundred Third Congress). Was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fifth Congress in 1996. Died on October 10, 2012, in Tampa, Fla. Interment at Myrtle Hill Memorial Park, Tampa, Fla.