About Ruby Gilbert
Lived 1929 – 2010 (aged 80). Ruby Gilbert was an American politician.
Ruby Gilbert (December 19, 1929 – February 28, 2010) was an American politician.
Gilbert was born in Childress, Texas and was raised in Dallas, Texas. In 1954, Gilbert moved to Wichita, Kansas and worked as a nurse's aide at Wesley Hospital in Wichita. Gilbert served in the Kansas House of Representatives from 1991 to 2004, from Wichita, and was the first African-American woman to be elected to the Kansas Legislature. Gilbert was appointed to the Kansas House of Representatives in 1991 to fill a vacancy and then was elected to the house in 1992. She was a Democrat. Gilbert died from cancer.
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American politician
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Ruby Gilbert was born on 19 December 1929 in Dallas.
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Ruby Gilbert died on 28 February 2010.
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