
March 2006: Sam Gibbons
Season 2006 Episode 3 | 56m 18sVideo has Closed Captions
Meet Sam Gibbons in this episode.
Sam Gibbons was one of the most powerful men in the US Congress not long ago, serving as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee among others. He represented Tampa Bay on Capitol Hill for 34 years, from the 1960s to the mid-1990s. Before that, he served nearly 10 years in the Florida Legislature. All that after returning home from World War II as a hero.
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Suncoast Business Forum is a local public television program presented by WEDU
This program sponsored by Raymond James Financial

March 2006: Sam Gibbons
Season 2006 Episode 3 | 56m 18sVideo has Closed Captions
Sam Gibbons was one of the most powerful men in the US Congress not long ago, serving as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee among others. He represented Tampa Bay on Capitol Hill for 34 years, from the 1960s to the mid-1990s. Before that, he served nearly 10 years in the Florida Legislature. All that after returning home from World War II as a hero.
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