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GORDON, Thomas Cage,<\/strong> attorney at law; born at Jackson, La., May 7, 1856; Scotch-Irish descent on mother\u2019s side and Indian on father\u2019s side, being descended from Pocahontas; one of his ancestors, John GORDON<\/strong>, was Captain of spies under Andrew JACKSON<\/strong>; graduated at Centenary College, Jackson, La., with degree of A. B., 1874, and in 1884, the degree of A. M. was conferred upon him; began his business career as a teacher; married Kate LATTA<\/strong>, June 1879; member of K. of P. and of Elks; Democrat; former Circuit Court Clerk of Dyer County; former County Superintendent of Education of Dyer County, and representative of Dyer Co., in the State Legislature; was Colonel on staff of Gov. McMillan; is now in the active practice of law at Dyersburg, Tenn.; Presbyterian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City:\u00a0 Dyersburg GORDON, Thomas Cage, attorney at law; born at Jackson, La., May 7, 1856; Scotch-Irish descent on mother\u2019s side and Indian on father\u2019s side, being descended from Pocahontas; one of his ancestors, John GORDON, was Captain of spies under Andrew JACKSON; graduated at Centenary College, Jackson, La., with degree of A. B., 1874, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[649,4411,4419],"tags":[1469,4391,947,540],"class_list":{"0":"post-2976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-dyer","7":"category-surname-g","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-gordon","10":"tag-jackson","11":"tag-latta","12":"tag-mcmillan","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15151,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions\/15151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}