George Anderson Gordon (September 26, 1830 – October 5, 1872) was an American politician. Gordon was born in Savannah, Ga., Sept. 26th, 1830. He entered the Sophomore Class at

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in Sept., 1846, and after graduation in 1849 remained for a year, engaged in the study of law, in the

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. In Nov., 1850, he began the practice of his profession in

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, N. J., but in the following summer returned to Savannah, where he continued in practice till the close of the year 1860. During this period he was, successively, U.S. District Attorney for Georgia and Member of the

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. In 1860-61 he was a member of the

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, and then entered the Confederate military service, as captain in the 1st Regiment of Georgia Volunteers. He subsequently became major and colonel. After the close of the war, he removed to

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, where he engaged in the practice of the law until his last illness. He died in Huntsville, age 42. He married Carolina B. Steenbergen, of Virginia, June 5, 1850. She died July 16, 1851, leaving one son He was again married, January 12, 1854, to Ellen C. Bevine, of Huntsville, Alabama, who died August 15, 1867, leaving six children, one of whom, Percy Gordon, was the father of diplomat

George A. Gordon George A. Gordon (November 19, 1885 – May 11, 1959) was an American attorney and diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Haiti and as United States Ambassador to the Netherlands. Life and career George Anderson Gordon was born in ...

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