Back جون غوردون (سياسي) Arabic جون جوردون (سلاڤيهولدير من امريكا) ARZ جان براون قوردون AZB John Brown Gordon German John Brown Gordon Spanish جان براون گوردون Persian John Brown Gordon Finnish John Brown Gordon French ג'ון בראון גורדון HE John Brown Gordon Hungarian
John Brown Gordon | |
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 Gordon in uniform, c. 1862 | |
| United States Senator from Georgia | |
| In office March 4, 1873 – May 26, 1880 | |
| Preceded by | Joshua Hill |
| Succeeded by | Joseph E. Brown |
| In office March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1897 | |
| Preceded by | Joseph E. Brown |
| Succeeded by | Alexander S. Clay |
| 53rd Governor of Georgia | |
| In office November 9, 1886 – November 8, 1890 | |
| Preceded by | Henry D. McDaniel |
| Succeeded by | William J. Northen |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 6, 1832 Upson County, Georgia, U.S. |
| Died | January 9, 1904 (aged 71) Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse |
Rebecca "Fanny" Haralson
(m. 1854) |
| Children | 6 |
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Confederate States |
| Branch/service | Confederate States Army |
| Years of service | 1861–1865 |
| Rank | Major General |
| Commands | Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia |
| Battles/wars | American Civil War |
John Brown Gordon (February 6, 1832 – January 9, 1904) was an attorney, a slaveholding planter, general in the Confederate States Army, and a politician in the postwar years. By the end of the Civil War, he had become "one of Robert E. Lee's most trusted generals."[1]: 241
After the war, Gordon strongly opposed Reconstruction during the late 1860s and into the 1870s. A member of the Democratic Party, he was twice elected by the Georgia state legislature as a US Senator (as was the practice at the time), serving from 1873 to 1880, and again from 1891 to 1897. He also was elected as the 53rd Governor of Georgia, serving two terms, from 1886 to 1890.