Nathan Green Gordon

Nathan Green Gordon ( born September 4, 1916 in Morrilton, Arkansas, † September 8, 2008 ) was an American politician.

Gordon attended Columbia Military Academy in Columbia, Tennessee and Arkansas Polytechnic College in Russellville. After he finished his law studies in 1939 at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, he started to practice in Morrilton. May 1941 Gordon joined at the Naval Air Corps and was trained as a pilot. During the Second World War he was in the Pacific for use and served more than two years. Here he flew a Consolidated PBY. Gordon was awarded several awards, including the Medal of Honor and the Distinguished Flying Cross. The Medal of Honor he received after he saved 15 comrades on February 15, 1944, which were under enemy fire. On this day, Gordon had been ordered to look for downed pilots in the Bismarck Sea near Papua New Guinea. Standing under fire, he could take nine men in three separate landings. On the way back, he discovered a lifeboat with six other men. Under heavy fire landed Gordon and took the men, and flew his plane was overloaded at this time, according to Finschhafen, a port in the north of New Guinea.

After the war he returned to Morrilton and began to engage in politics as a Democrat. In 1946 he was elected Vice- Governor ( lieutenant governor ) of Arkansas. Overall, Gordon was re-elected nine times and held that post therefore from January 1947 to January 1967 from. During this time he worked under four governors and was often acting governor than any other politician in the history of Arkansas. After 1967 he was re- engaged in his former profession and practiced as a lawyer again.

He died on Monday, September 8, 2008 shortly before midnight at the consequences of pneumonia.