Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs
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Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, II was an American Presbyterian minister who served as Secretary of State and Superintendent of Public Instruction of Florida, and, along with U.S. Congressman Josiah Thomas W
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Gibbs between 1868 and 1874
The 1868 Florida Constitution, signed by Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs.
Republican governor Marcellus Stearns greeting Harriet Beecher Stowe. Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs is visible toward one of the columns.
Florida A&M University
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Florida A&M University is a public historically black land-grant university in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. Founded in 1887, it is the third-largest historically black university in the US by
Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs
…1872. His son, Thomas Gibbs, was responsible for introducing legislation creating the State Normal College for Colored Students in 1885, forerunner of Florida A&M University. Gibbs died on August 14, 1874, in Tallahassee, Florida, reportedly of apoplexy (stroke), "ostensibly from eating too heavy a dinner. It was rumored…
FAMU campus, Lee Hall
Carnegie Library c. 1930.
Lee Hall c. 1930.
Coleman Library