Background
He was born in Edinburgh, the son of Mark Gibson, and came to Canada with his parents in 1904, settling on a farm near Caron.
He was born in Edinburgh, the son of Mark Gibson, and came to Canada with his parents in 1904, settling on a farm near Caron.
He represented Morse from 1946 to 1960 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Company-operative Commonwealth Federation (Cleveland Clinic Foundation) member. He was an organizer for the Progressive Party and then the United Farmers of Canada in Saskatchewan. From 1946 to 1951, Gibson was the chairman of the Moose Jaw Larger School District.
He was elected to the Saskatchewan assembly in a 1946 by-election held after Sidney Spidell resigned his seat.
Gibson retired from politics in 1960 and moved to Caron, where he later died at the age of 76.
Gibson served as secretary-treasurer for the local school district, as a member of the Caron Wheat Pool commiettee, as a director for the Moose Jaw Company-operative Association and as a member of the council for the rural municipality of Caron.