Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p John S. Gibson, Jr. (1902–1987) was a powerful San Pedro, California, politician who was on the Los Angeles City Council for thirty years between 1951 and 1981. He was the president of the council for sixteen of those years and was acting mayor when the mayor was out of the city. Earlier, fresh out of college, he was mayor of a small town in Kansas, the youngest at age 21 ever to serve in the entire country to that time.He was seen as a "crafty politician who used a folksy approach to wield considerable power in the city over four decades.". }
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- John_S._Gibson,_Jr. abstract "John S. Gibson, Jr. (1902–1987) was a powerful San Pedro, California, politician who was on the Los Angeles City Council for thirty years between 1951 and 1981. He was the president of the council for sixteen of those years and was acting mayor when the mayor was out of the city. Earlier, fresh out of college, he was mayor of a small town in Kansas, the youngest at age 21 ever to serve in the entire country to that time.He was seen as a "crafty politician who used a folksy approach to wield considerable power in the city over four decades."".