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John S. Gibson, Jr. (1902–1987) was a powerful San Pedro, California, politician who was on the Los Angeles City Council for thirty years between 1951 and 1981. He was the president of the council for sixteen of those years and was acting mayor when the mayor was out of the city. Earlier, fresh out of college, he was mayor of a small town in Kansas, the youngest at age 21 ever to serve in the entire country to that time. He was seen as a "crafty politician who used a folksy approach to wield considerable power in the city over four decades."〔(Jean Merl, "Ex-Council Chief John S. Gibson Jr. Dies," ''Los Angeles Times,'' April 23, 1987 )〕 ==Biography== Gibson was born on August 11, 1902, in Geneseo, Kansas, the son of John S. Gibson of Constantine, Michigan, and Flora Dix Gibson of Lynn, Massachusetts,〔"My mother was a very religious woman and worked a whole lot with Carrie Nation against alcohol," Gibson recalled in 1975. ()〕 Gibson graduated from Geneseo High School and the University of Kansas. He was married on January 16, 1923, to Mina Workman of Lyons, Kansas.〔He said in 1975 she was born in Long Beach.〕 They had two daughters, Marlyn Irene Buehler and Florene Dix Blackwelder. The family moved to California in 1926 or 1927, where he worked for his father-in-law's Long Beach dairy for a year before relocating to San Pedro, California, in 1928. He graduated from the American Institute of Banking and became president of the Citizens Bank there in 1930 and a general contractor in 1941.〔(Los Angeles Public Library reference file )〕 The family home was at 1604 Sunnyside Terrace.〔(Location of the Gibson home on ''Mapping L.A.'' )〕 In 1951 he was on the board of the San Pedro YMCA, director of the Pacific Southwest Region of Youth for Christ, chairman of the board of the First Baptist Church and treasurer of the Harbor Association of Evangelicals and a member of the Christian Businessmen's Association. He founded California's first Boys Club in San Pedro.〔 He was a hunter and fisherman and, as a council member, regularly sponsored a fishing derby at the Los Angeles Harbor for local children.〔 Gibson suffered a heart attack in 1974, but "it was his wife's death in 1978 that seemed to take the biggest toll." He died at his home on April 22, 1987, when he was recuperating from hip surgery.〔 Funeral services were held at the First Baptist Church in San Pedro, and interment was at Green Hills Memorial Park〔(Funeral notice, ''Los Angeles Times,'' April 24, 1987, page SD-A-4 )〕 on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. 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「John S. Gibson, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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