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Gibson Donald Lewis, known as Gib Lewis (born August 22, 1936), is a political consultant and a Democratic former politician from Fort Worth, Texas. He was the first person to be elected five times as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, but he did not seek reelection in 1992, in compliance with a plea bargain agreement connected with his misdemeanor conviction of a violation of Texas financial disclosure law. ==Background== Lewis was born in Oletha in Limestone County and reared partly in Mexia in east central Texas. He spent his formative years in Cleveland, Texas, where he graduated in 1955 from Cleveland High School. He then enrolled at Sam Houston State College in Huntsville in Walker County in East Texas. Lewis founded Lewis Label Products, a firm which specialized in pressure-sensitive labels. It grew into a multimillion dollar business. Since leaving the state legislature, he has lobbied state government on behalf of private clients.〔〔 Lewis is married to the former Sandra Majors.〔 He is the namesake of the Gibson D. Lewis Health Science Library at the University of North Texas Health Science Center and the Gib Lewis Prison Unit in Woodville, Texas. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gib Lewis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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