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BEN J. GIBSON, attorney general and legislator, died at Rochester, Minnesota, July 8, 1949; born in Adams county, Iowa, November 13, 1882; one of six children, his mother, Mrs. Virginia Gibson, still living at Nodaway, Iowa; educated in schools of Adams county, the University of Nebraska, and received his law degree from the University of Nebraska law school; began the practice of law in 1906 at Corning, in his home county; served as county attorney from 1908 to 1912; elected state senator for the Sixth district, but did not complete the term, resigning in 1917 to volunteer in World War I, becoming a Third Iowa and 72nd U. S. infantry captain; returned to the practice of law in 1919; elected attorney general of Iowa in 1920 and re-elected twice thereafter; retired from office in 1927 and entered the practice of law in Des Moines; married September 5, 1905, to Anna Rolston, of Adams county, who with two sons, Wendell B. and Ben J. Jr., survive him; a member of bar associations, fraternities and clubs and the Central Presbyterian church of Des. Moines.