Gibson C. Armstrong
| Gibson C. Armstrong | |
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| Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the 100th district |
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In office July 20, 2002 – November 30, 2006 |
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| Preceded by | John Barley |
| Succeeded by | Bryan Cutler |
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| Born | North Carolina |
| Political party | Republican |
Gibson C. Armstrong served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 100 District. His first campaign was against 18-year incumbent John E. Barley who resigned rather than face Armstrong in a primary election. As a result, he was elected in a special election on July 16, 2002 to fill Barley's unexpired term.
While in office he held statewide policy hearings on higher education reform, spoke at national policy conferences and on regional talk radio, hosted statewide TV programming, and, after the tragic slaying of Amish students in his district, went on Glenn Beck to tell the encroaching national media to "back off!"
Armstrong founded and ran the Renewable Energy Caucus, the legislature’s largest policy caucus, to educate colleagues on clean energy policy issues. Additionally, he spoke at state political and energy conferences.
As a member of the powerful Appropriations Committee, each year he exercised oversight of hundreds of programs and thousands of line items in PA's $25 billion budgets.
As the Aviation Subcommittee Chairman on the Transportation Committee, he was handpicked by chairman to stop $20 million Aviation Trust Fund from losing $1 million annually.
While serving on the Aging and Older Adult Services Committee, he discovered a senior care program funding formula "error" favoring Philadelphia that, once corrected, netted local seniors and senior services hundreds of thousands of dollars in added annual benefits.
He worked closely with the Secretary of Environmental Protection to found the PA Energy Development Authority, and was then appointed Chairman of Technology Committee and subsequently Board Secretary. The committee reviewed and approved $300+ million for advanced energy projects. He remains active on the authority.
He left office in 2006 and was succeeded by Bryan Cutler.
Armstrong attended Millersville University and was admitted on his third application to the US Naval Academy's Class of 1991. At "Navy," he majored in political science and minored in Chinese and engineering. He earned his "jump wings" at the US Army Airborne School in Ft. Benning, GA following plebe (freshman) year. He rowed crew, stroking the second boat and rowing in some of the shells built by George Pocock, made famous to the rest of the world by The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown. Additionally he served as the vice president of Officer's Christian Fellowship and was awarded a Cox Language Scholarship to study Chinese for a summer in Taiwan. Following graduation he married Sharon Barnett.
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