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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaJohn Brown GORDON
(1832-1904)
Senate Years of Service:
1873-1880; 1891-1897Party: Democrat; DemocratGORDON, John Brown, a
Senator from Georgia; born in Upson County, Ga., February 6, 1832;
attended private schools and the University of Georgia at Athens;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced practice in
Atlanta, Ga.; engaged in coal mining; upon the outbreak of the
Civil War entered the Confederate Army as captain of Infantry and
rose to lieutenant general; resumed the practice of law in Atlanta,
Ga.; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor in 1868;
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1873;
reelected in 1879 and served from March 4, 1873, until May 26,
1880, when he resigned to promote the building of the Georgia
Pacific Railroad; chairman, Committee on Commerce (Forty-sixth
Congress); Governor of Georgia 1886-1890; again elected to the
United States Senate and served from March 4, 1891, to March 3,
1897; declined to be a candidate for reelection; chairman,
Committee on Coastal Defenses (Fifty-third Congress); engaged in
lecturing and literary work; died in Miami, Fla., January 9, 1904;
interment in Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Culpepper, Grady S.
“The Political Career of John Brown Gordon, 1868 to
1897.” Ph.D. dissertation, Emory University, 1981; Eckert,
Ralph L. John Brown Gordon: Soldier, Southerner, American.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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