A. C. Gibbs

'''Addison Crandall He attended and graduated from a state-run normal school before becoming a teacher. In 1864, responding to orders from the United States Congress, Gibbs raised an infantry regiment despite opposition from Oregonians. His term ended on September 12, 1866.

After his term as governor, Gibbs was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 1866 to replace James W. Nesmith with Henry W. Corbett as the selection of the Oregon Legislature. Gibbs then served as the United States District Attorney for the United States District of Oregon and as a commissioner for the state to settle war claims from the wars against the Native Americans. Gibbs, as Oregon District Attorney, was controversially removed from office by President Ulysses S. Grant's Attorney General George Henry Williams, former Senator from Oregon, while Gibbs was prosecuting election frauds in Oregon. He then returned to private practice in Portland at what is now Miller Nash Graham & Dunn LLP.

Death Addison Crandall Gibbs died in London, England, on December 29, 1886 . His remains were returned from England by an act of the Oregon Legislature and he was interred at the River View Cemetery in Portland in 1887.