Pryor Allan Gibson III is a government official in

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. He served as a Democratic member of the

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representing the state's sixty-ninth House district, including constituents in

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, Montgomery and

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counties. A businessman from

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, Gibson was serving in his eighth term in the state House when, in 2011, he announced he would resign to become Gov.

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's senior adviser for governmental affairs. In 2020, he was appointed as Assistant Secretary of the

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to lead its Division of Employment Security.

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