JOHN B GORDON
JOHN B GORDON
Born: 6 February 1832
Died: 9 January 1904
Age: 71 Years 11 Months 3 Days
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John Brown Gordon ((1832-02-06)February 6, 1832 – (1904-01-09)January 9, 1904) was an attorney, a slaveholding plantation owner, general in the Confederate States Army, and politician in the postwar years. By the end of the Civil War, he had become "one of Robert E. Lee's most trusted generals.": 241
After the war, Gordon strongly opposed Reconstruction during the late 1860s. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected by the Georgia state legislature to serve as a US Senator, from 1873 to 1880, and again from 1891 to 1897. He also was elected as the 53rd Governor of Georgia, serving from 1886 to 1890.
"John Brown Gordon" Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 22 July 2004. Web. 10 Aug.2004., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_Gordon
BillionGraves.com record for JOHN B GORDON (6 February 1832 - 9 January 1904), BillionGraves Record Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States, North America
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