He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1836 and commenced practice in Butler.
Gilmore was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses.
He resumed the practice of law in Philadelphia, and later moved to Lenox, Massachusetts, in 1866, and continued the practice of his profession.
He died while on a visit in New York City in 1890.
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