Robert J. Gamble
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Early life
Gamble was born in Genesee County, near Akron, New York, the son of Robert Gamble and Jennie (Abernethy) Gamble.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". In 1862, he moved with his parents to Fox Lake, Wisconsin.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". In 1874, he graduated from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin with a Bachelor of Science degree, and he later received his Master of Science from Lawrence.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". While attending college, Gamble taught school in the summer to pay his tuition.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". After graduating, he studied law with the Milwaukee firm of Jenkins, Elliot & Wheeler, and was admitted to the bar in 1875.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". He moved to Yankton in the portion of the Dakota Territory which later became South Dakota.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Start of career
A Republican, he became a district attorney for the second judicial district of the Territory of Dakota in 1880, and was Yankton's city attorney in 1881 and 1882.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". He served on the Territorial Council in 1885.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". In 1894, he was elected to Seat B, one of South Dakota's two at-large seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, and he served in the Fifty-fourth Congress.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". He ran unsuccessfully for reelection in 1896, but was again elected to Seat B in 1898, and served in the Fifty-sixth Congress.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". During the Fifty-sixth Congress, he became the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Expenditures on the Public Buildings.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
U.S. Senator
In 1901, Gamble was elected to the United States Senate.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Re-elected in 1906, he served until March 1913, after being an unsuccessful candidate for renomination.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". During his senate career, he was chairman of the: Committee on Indian Depredations (57th Congress); Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (58th to 60th Congresses); Committee on Indian Affairs (62nd Congress); and Committee on Enrolled Bills (64th Congress).Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Later life, death and legacy
In 1915, Gamble moved to Sioux Falls and resumed the practice of law.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". From 1916 to 1924, he served as a referee in bankruptcy for the southern district of South Dakota. He was a member of the National Executive Committee of the League to Enforce Peace.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Gamble died in Sioux Falls on September 22, 1924, aged 73, and was buried at Yankton City Cemetery in Yankton.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
In 1909, Lawrence University posthumnously awarded Gamble the honorary LL.D.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Family
In 1884, Gamble married Carrie S. Osborne of Portage, Wisconsin.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". They were the parents of two sons, Ralph and George.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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External links
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- Gamble Family at The Political Graveyard
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