Ernest Willard Gibson (29 December 1872-20 June 1940) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-VT 2) from 6 November 1923 to 19 October 1933 (succeeding Porter H. Dale and preceding Charles A. Plumley) and a US Senator from Vermont from 21 November 1933 to 20 June 1940 (succeeding Dale and preceding Ernest W. Gibson Jr.).
Biography[]
Ernest Willard Gibson was born in Londonderry, Vermont in 1872, and he was classmates with Calvin Coolidge. He became a lawyer in 1899, served as a high school principal in Chester from 1894 to 1898, as a village trustee from 1895 to 1898, served as a trustee of Norwich University from 1899 to 1909 and from 1919 to 1935, served in the State House from 1906 to 1908, and in the State Senate from 1908 to 1910. Gibson became a leader of the progressive Republican movement, and he served as a US Army captain in Mexico during the Border War and in France during World War I, as Windham County's state's attorney from 1919 to 1921, in the US House of Representatives from 1923 to 1933, and in the US Senate from 1933 until his death in 1940 at the death of 67.