John L. Gibbs
 John La Porte Gibbs (May 3 1838 – November 28 1908) was a Minnesota legislator and the 14th Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota. He was born in Bradford County Pennsylvania. Although much is not known about his early education he attended Ann Arbor Law School graduating in 1861. In 1862 he was elected County Attorney of Freeborn County Michigan which no longer exists as a county. He served in the Minnesota House of Representatives four different times serving as speaker in 1877 and 1885.