James Gordon (Mississippi)

James Gordon ( born December 6, 1833 in Cotton Gin Port, Monroe County, Mississippi, † November 28, 1912 in Okolona, Mississippi ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Mississippi in the U.S. Senate.

James Gordon was still an infant when his parents moved to Pontotoc County with him in 1834. He attended the public schools and one private school in Holly Springs and later a college in Alabama. In 1855 he graduated from the University of Mississippi in Oxford. After that he worked as a planter as well as a writer for newspapers and magazines.

Politically active Gordon was the first time in 1857 as a delegate in the House of Representatives from Mississippi, where he in 1859 once again belonged. In that year he moved to after Okolona in Chickasaw County. After the outbreak of the Civil War he joined the Confederate Army, where he served as colonel of several regiments of cavalry be imputed by him. In 1864 he was for the Confederacy diplomatic mission tour in Europe. On his return in January 1865, he was captured in the port of Wilmington; he could escape but a little later and settle in Canada. When he re- entered U.S. soil after the war, Gordon was accused that he was involved in the assassination plot against President John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln, but he was able to remove this suspicion.

He became politically active again after the resumption of the State of Mississippi; he graduated in 1876 and 1886 two further terms in the House of Representatives in Jackson. From 1904 to 1906 he was State Senator. At the age of 76 years, James Gordon was finally appointed U.S. Senator. He stepped in Washington on December 27, 1909, the successor of the late Anselm McLaurin and remained until February 22, 1910 at the Congress; at the next election, he did not start. His remaining years were spent with Gordon agricultural work and literary activities, before he died in Okolona in November 1912.

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