Amoz Gibson

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Amoz Gibson (born August 3, 1918 in Washington, D.C, United States, died 1982 in Haifa, Israel) served as a member of the Universal House of Justice, the supreme governing body of the Bahá'í Faith, between 1963 and 1982.

Mr. Gibson received a Bachelor of Science in Education from Miner Teachers College (now the University of the District of Columbia) in 1940 and an Master of Science in Geography from Mexico City College (now University of the Americas) in 1951. He was inducted into the United States Army in 1944 and served in Europe and the Pacific during World War II. He returned to Washington in 1946 and continued his work in the educational field as a teacher.

In the mid-1950s he pioneered to the Navajo Indian Reservation, where he taught for four years. In 1959 he was appointed to the Auxiliary Board for protection, and in 1960 he was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. In 1963 he was elected to the first Universal House of Justice and remained in office until his death in 1982.