Charles Samuel Gubser was a Republican U.S. Representative

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 from California.

Born in Gilroy, California

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, Gubser attended public schools. He graduated from San Jose State Junior College in 1934, the University of California

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 in 1937, and then did two years of graduate work. He taught at Gilroy Union High School from 1939 to 1943. Grubser had been a farmer since 1940. He served as member of the California State Assembly

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 in 1951 and 1952.

Gubser was elected as a Republican

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 to the Eighty-third

83rd United States Congress

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 Congress. He was reelected to the ten succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1953. He was not a candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth

94th United States Congress

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 Congress and resigned his seat on December 31, 1974.

He was a resident of Fresno, California at the time of his death. Gubser died in Fresno, California

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on August 20, 2011. He was 95.