James Gordon (27 June 1845 – 22 November 1914) was a politician and solicitor in New South Wales, Australia. He was born at Braidwood to pastoralist Hugh Gordon and Mary Macarthur. His grandfather was

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. He was educated at

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by his uncle, the Reverend George Fairfowl Macarthur. He became an

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to solicitor John Dunsmore then an associate to

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in the District Court before being admitted as a solicitor in 1869. He settled in

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, and on 9 January 1872 married Eleanor Jamieson Grant, with whom he had seven children. In 1887 he was elected to the

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as a

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member for

. He was defeated in 1889. Gordon died at Young on .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gordon, James 1845 births 1914 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Free Trade Party politicians