Gibson Clark

Gibson Clark (December 5, 1844 – December 14, 1914) was an American jurist who served as a justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court from January 2, 1893, to September 22, 1894. He would resign that position in order to become the first official US Attorney for the District of Wyoming. He was born in Clarke County, Virginia and served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.

Early life Gibson Clark was born in Millwood, Virginia, in December 1844 to James Hopkins Clark and Jane Adelaide Gregory Clark. He was educated in public schools and at the beginning of the Civil War he enlisted in the Confederate army, serving with the Parker battery until the final surrender of Appomattox. He fought in some of the bloodiest battles of the war, including Chickamauga, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Gettysburg and Petersburg. At the end of the war he returned to Virginia but in 1866 moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he was employed as a clerk in a mercantile establishment. Later that same year he went to Fort Laramie, Wyoming, then in the territory of Dakota, arriving there from Nebraska City. There he was employed as a clerk and bookkeeper in the post trader's store. He was elected to the Territorial Legislative Assembly in 1871. From 1872 to 1883 he worked in mining in Nevada and Utah.

Death Judge Gibson Clark died at 1:30 in the morning at his residence at No. 321 East Seventeenth Street. At his bedside when the end came were his wife and four sons. The end had been anticipated for nearly a fortnight. The funeral was held at St. Mark's Episcopal Church.

A veteran of the Confederate army, he became a supporter of the united country. An address which he delivered at a G.A.R. meeting some years ago was considered a piece of patriotic sentiment delivered in the state.