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Senator Gibson

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ87997429 ↗
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Senator Gibson may refer to:

Members of the Northern Irish Senate

William Gibson (Ulster Unionist Party politician) (1859/1860–?), Northern Irish Senator from 1935 to 1942

Members of the United States Senate

Charles H. Gibson (1842–1900), U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1891 to 1897

Ernest W. Gibson Jr.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1859, 1860, 1935, 1942—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Senator, Gibson and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Senator Gibson” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.