Robert Jackson Gamble Biography


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GAMBLE, Robert Jackson (brother of John Rankin Gamble and father of 
Ralph Abernethy Gamble), a Representative and a Senator from South 
Dakota; born in Genesee Co, near Akron, Erie County, N. Y., February 7, 
1851; moved with his parents to Fox Lake, Wis., in 1862; was graduated 
from Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis., in 1874; studied law; was 
admitted to the bar in 1875 and commenced practice in Yankton, 
Territory of Dakota (now South Dakota); district attorney for the 
second judicial district of the Territory of Dakota in 1880; city 
attorney of Yankton in 1881 and 1882; Territorial council in 1885; 
chairman of the Republican State conventions in 1892 and 1893; elected 
as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 
1897); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth 
Congress; elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1899-March 3, 
1901); elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1901; 
reelected in 1906, and served from March 4, 1901, to March 3, 1913; 
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1912; moved to Sioux Falls, 
S. Dak., in 1915; resumed the practice of law; referee in bankruptcy, 
southern district of South Dakota, 1916-1924; member of the National 
Executive Committee of the  League to Enforce Peace and chairman of the 
South Dakota branch; director of the American Red Cross for South 
Dakota in 1917; member of the American Bar Association, National 
Institute of Social Science, and the State Historical Society; died in 
Sioux Falls, S. Dak., September 22, 1924; interment in Yankton 
Cemetery, Yankton, S. Dak.