Ernest Willard Gibson Jr. (6 March 1901-4 November 1969) was a Republican US Senator from Vermont from 24 June 1940 to 3 January 1941 (succeeding Ernest Willard Gibson and preceding George Aiken) and Governor of Vermont from 9 January 1947 to 16 January 1950 (succeeding Mortimer R. Proctor and preceding Harold J. Arthur).
Biography[]
Ernest Willard Gibson Jr. was born in Brattleboro, Vermont in 1901, the son of progressive Republican US Senator Ernest Willard Gibson. He served in the US Army reserve before serving as State's Attorney of Windham County from 1929 to 1933, assistant secretary of the Vermont Senate from 1931 to 1933, secretary from 1933 to 1940, as a US Senator from 1940 to 1941 (following his father's death), as Governor from 1947 to 1950, and as a Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont from 1949 until his death in 1969. He concurrently served in the US 43rd Infantry Division during World War II, and he was wounded in the Pacific. As Governor, he argued against the Republican status quo and for internationalism, and he appealed to war veterans and younger voters. He served as a judge until his death in 1969.