Randall Lee Gibson (September 10, 1832 – December 15, 1892) was an American attorney and politician, elected as a member of the House of Representatives and U.S.

Learning about his life, the governor declared him a free man with all privileges, and granted him land.

[2] Gibson's father moved his family to Louisiana when Randall was a child, where the youth was educated in local academies.

He went to college in the North, graduating from Yale University in 1853, where he was a member of the Skull and Bones society.

He inspired his troops to hold Spanish Fort, which was under siege,[3] until the last moment, after which they escaped at night on April 8, 1865.

... As much as racial purity mattered to white Southerners, they had to circle the wagons around Randall Gibson.

"[5]Sharfstein claims that Gibson's paternal line went back to freed African slaves in colonial Virginia.

[5] Randall Gibson died as a United States senator while in Hot Springs, Arkansas.