William Gordon (New Hampshire politician)

William Gordon ( born April 12, 1763 in Boston, Massachusetts, † May 8, 1802 ) was an American politician. Between 1797 and 1800, he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Gordon visited to 1779 Harvard College, which later became Harvard University. After studying law and its made ​​in 1787 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Amherst (New Hampshire). In 1793 he was executor (Register of Probate ). Gordon joined the Federalist Party, and was sitting in the years 1794 and 1795 in the Senate of New Hampshire. Since 1794, he was district attorney in Hillsborough County.

In the congressional elections of 1796, which were held all across the state, Gordon was elected for the third parliamentary seat from New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he entered on March 4, 1797, the successor of John Samuel Sherburne. In 1798, Gordon was confirmed in his terms in Congress. His second term would have extended to March 3, 1801. But Gordon resigned on June 12, 1800, after he was appointed Attorney General of New Hampshire. His mandate was made after a special election to Samuel Tenney. In Congress, he was involved in 1798 in the impeachment proceedings against Senator William Blount of Tennessee.

William Gordon held the office of Attorney General until his death in May 8, 1802 in Boston.