Thomas Gamble (mayor)

Thomas Gamble Jr. (March 16, 1868 – July 13, 1945) was an American historian and a politician from Georgia, United States.

Thomas Gamble who was a Newspaperman, six-term Mayor of Savannah, Mayor of Savannah Beach, Historical Researcher and Writer, the father of Armstrong Junior College, a Publisher, a Husband, a Father, a decorated Chevalier Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, a recipient of a bronze medallion from the LS.

Pulaski Sesqui-centennlal commission, a recipient of the Lucas Cup trophy and member of various other notable civic and social societies, commissions and boards.

He was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1868 and died in 1945 after adopting Savannah as his home in 1888.

Gamble died in office at Signal Mountain, Tennessee on July 13, 1945 of coronary thrombosis at the age of 77.

The Thomas Gamble Building on Savannah's East Bay Street, named for the mayor upon his death