John B. Gordon

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John B. Gordon

Quill platform ID: p6970.

(February 6, 1832 — January 9, 1904) John Brown Gordon was a coal miner, lawyer, and politician. Gordon was born in Upson County, Georgia in 1832. He attended the University of Georgia at Athens, and was admitted to the bar in 1853. Rather than practice law, Gordon worked in coal mining until the start of the Civil War. He enlisted in the Confederate Army and served as a captain and Lieutenant General. Gordon was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served during the Forty-Third, Forty-Fourth, Forty-Fifth, and start of the Forty-Sixth Congresses. He served in Congress from March 4, 1873 to May 26, 1880, when he resigned to pursue interests in the railroad industry. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/G000313]

Member of Georgia Delegation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875.

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