Clarke County GaArchives Biographies.....Gamble, John B. 1878 - living in 1923
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Author: H. J. Rowe

JOHN B. GAMBLE

   Born at Hamilton, Georgia, August 25, 1878, and is a son of John W. and
Jemmie (Mobley) Gamble. His father was born in Talbot County, Georgia, and died
at Hamilton, Georgia, March 12, 1885. His mother was born at Hamilton, Georgia,
and now lives with her son at Athens, Georgia. Mr. Gamble obtained his early
education in the schools of Hamilton, Georgia, and subsequently attended the
Neil Institute at Griffin, Georgia. From 1898 to 1902 he worked to secure needed
means to enable him to enter college. In September, 1902, he entered the
University of Georgia; and was graduated from the Law Department with the degree
of Bachelor of Law, and was admitted to the bar on June 15, 1904, at Athens,
Georgia, and on October 1, 1904, he opened an office at Athens, Georgia, where
he has continuously practiced his profession.

   In 1905 he was appointed Administrator for Clarke County, serving in this
capacity for four years. In 1907 he was appointed County Attorney for Clarke
County and Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners, holding this position for
several years. In 1908 he was elected Chairman of the Democratic Executive
Committee for Clarke County, and held this position until 1913. In 1912 he was
nominated and elected Solicitor General of the Western Circuit, and went in
office January 1, 1913, and retired January 1, 1917. He is at present District
Counsel of the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company, covering the territory from
the South Carolina line to Fulton County.

   He is President of the Athens Bar Association, and Chairman of the Membership
Committee of the Georgia Bar Association, and a member of the American Bar
Association.

   Mr. Gamble, on March 1, 1905, married Miss Mable Turner Hodgson, of Athens,
Georgia, daughter of Joseph M. and Belle Turner Hodgson. There is only one
child, Isabella Frances Gamble, born at Athens, Georgia, on February 24, 1906.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF ATHENS and CLARKE COUNTY
1923

H. J. ROWE, Publisher

THE McGREGOR CO., PRINTERS, ATHENS, GA.




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