What Does a County Commissioner Actually Do? A Preview of the Lester Gibson Papers

This blog post was composed by Joe Wilson, a Ph.D. student in the History Department. This past summer, I processed a large section of the Lester Gibson papers. Gibson, who became the first African American elected as a McLennan County Commissioner, served in that role for Precinct 2 from 1990 to 2018. A Navy veteran of the Vietnam War and…