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Jesse Carter Gilbert (1831,
Benton, Kentucky Benton is a home rule-class city and the county seat of Marshall County, Kentucky, United States. The current mayor of this city is Rita Dotson. The population was 4,756 at the 2020 census. History Benton was founded in 1842 by John Bearden ...
- 24 September 1894,
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) was an attorney and politician. He served in the
Kentucky House of Representatives The Kentucky House of Representatives is the lower house of the Kentucky General Assembly. It is composed of 100 Representatives elected from single-member districts throughout the Commonwealth. Not more than two counties can be joined to form a ...
from August 1861 until his expulsion on December 21. He was elected
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from the second district in 1871 and served until 1875. Afterward he was an attorney, practicing in
Paducah, Kentucky Paducah ( ) is a List of cities in Kentucky, home rule-class city in the Upland South, and the county seat of McCracken County, Kentucky, United States. The most populous city in the Jackson Purchase region, it is located in the Southeastern Unit ...
for the balance of his life.
"Memorial record of Western Kentucky, Volume I and Volume II," Lewis Publishing Company, 1904, pages 32-33. (Convenience link at Ancestry.com retrieved January 21, 2009) The town of
Gilbertsville, Kentucky Gilbertsville is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Marshall County, Kentucky, United States. It is the closest village to the Kentucky Dam. The town was relocated to its present site when Kentucky Dam and Kentucky Dam V ...
was named for him in 1874.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gilbert, Jesse C. 1831 births 1894 deaths Democratic Party Kentucky state senators Secessionist members of the Kentucky House of Representatives People from Benton, Kentucky People from McCracken County, Kentucky 19th-century members of the Kentucky General Assembly Expelled members of the Kentucky General Assembly