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GORDON, George Washington

GORDON, George Washington
Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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GORDON, George Washington
1836–1911

Office

Representative

State/Territory

Tennessee

Party

Democrat

Congress(es)

60th (1907–1909), 61st (1909–1911), 62nd (1911–1913)

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Concise Biography

GORDON, George Washington, A Representative from Tennessee; born in Pulaski, Giles County, Tenn., October 5, 1836; received a collegiate training and was graduated from the Western Military Institute, Nashville, Tenn., in 1859; practiced civil engineering until the beginning of the Civil War; enlisted in the military service of the Confederacy; was drillmaster of the Eleventh Regiment, Tennessee Infantry; was successively a captain, lieutenant colonel, colonel, and brigadier general, and served until the close of the war; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Memphis, Tenn., until 1883; appointed one of the railroad commissioners of Tennessee; received an appointment in the Department of the Interior, 1885, as special Indian agent in Arizona and Nevada and served until 1889; returned to Memphis, Tenn.; resumed the practice of law; superintendent of the Memphis city schools 1889-1907; elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses and served from March 4, 1907, until his death in Memphis, Tenn., on August 9, 1911; interment in Elmwood Cemetery.

View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress

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External Research Collections

University of Memphis Library
Mississippi Valley Collection

Memphis, TN
Papers: 1863-1912, 5 leaves. The collection of George Washington Gordon includes a scrapbook concerning his activities in United Confederate Veterans, a report on Battle of Chickamauga, and speeches and memorial addresses. An unpublished finding aid is available in the repository.
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Bibliography / Further Reading

United States. 62d Cong. 2d sess., 1911-1912. George Washington Gordon late a Representative from Tennessee. Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States, Sixty-second Congress. Proceedings in the House, May 12, 1912. Proceedings in the Senate, August 10, 1911. Prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1913.

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