Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I uru a Gibson ki te tōrangapū hei mema o te Whig Party me nga whakaaro kaha ki te mahi pononga. I te wa o te pakanga a te Perehitini o te US o te tau 1844, i korero ia mo Henry Clay na te kaupapa a te Whig Party i whakahe ki te whakauru i a Texas ki te Uniana na te mea he kawanatanga pononga. I te pakanga a te Perehitini o Amerika o 1848, i tautoko a Gibson i te kaitono Whig, "Rough and Ready" General Zachary Taylor. Heoi, i awangawanga ia mo te kore o te roopu Whig ki te whakakore i te pononga, a ka toro atu ia ki a Henry Clay i tona kaainga i Ashland, Kentucky i te 1848 ki te korero mo tenei take. I hinga ia hei kaitono Whig mo te Kai-whakawa Matua o Ohio i te tau 1853. I te tau 1853, whai muri i te hinganga nui o te kaitono Whig a General Winfield Scott i te pooti Perehitini o te US o te tau 1852, ka tukuna e Gibson tana tautoko ki te Free Soil Party ka tiimata te whakarite i te mea ka waiho hei Pāti Reipa i Ohio. I tae ia ki te hui whakahaere tuatahi o te Rōpū Reipa i te puna o te tau 1856 i Pittsburgh. Ko ia tētahi o ngā māngai 69 o Ohio (o ngā māngai 600 katoa mai i te motu katoa) i tae atu ki te
Ko te Huihuinga ā-Motu o te Rōpū Reipa tuatahi i tū ki Philadelphia i Hune 1856. I te tau 1856, i rere ia, ka pootihia hei Republican tuatahi ki te pupuri i te tari o Ohio State Treasurer.