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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Gordon, George Washington
Gordon, George Washington, a Representative from Tennessee; born in Pulaski, Giles County, Tenn., October 5, 1836; received a collegiate training and was graduated from the Western Military Institute, Nashville, Tenn., in 1859; practiced civil engineering until the beginning of the Civil War; enlisted in the military service of the Confederacy; was drillmaster of the Eleventh Regiment, Tennessee Infantry; was successively a captain, lieutenant colonel, colonel, and brigadier general, and served until the close of the war; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Memphis, Tenn., until 1883; appointed one of the railroad commissioners of Tennessee; received an appointment in the Department of the interior July 14, 1887, as special Indian agent in Arizona and Nevada and served until February 15, 1890; returned to Memphis, Tenn.; resumed the practice of law; superintendent of the Memphis city schools 1889-1907; elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses and served from March 4, 1907, until his death in Memphis, Tenn., on August 9, 1911; interment in Elmwood Cemetery.
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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Gordon, George Washington," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1223 Original Sources, accessed March 16, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=5BNFKXUVTKHAPSH.
MLA: U.S. Congress. "Gordon, George Washington." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1223, Original Sources. 16 Mar. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=5BNFKXUVTKHAPSH.
Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Gordon, George Washington' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1223. Original Sources, retrieved 16 March 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=5BNFKXUVTKHAPSH.
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