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GORDON, George Washington<\/strong>, soldier, congressman, commander-in-chief United Confederate Veterans; born in Giles Co., Tenn., Oct. 5, 1836; son of Andrew<\/strong> and Eliza K. GORDON<\/strong>; graduated from Western Military Institute in 1859; married Ora S. PAINE<\/strong>, Sept. 5, 1876; in early life was practical civil engineer until outbreak of civil war; enlisted in the military service of Tenn. as drillmaster of the 11th Inf. regiment; transferred to military service of C. S. A.; promoted to captain, lieutenant-colonel, colonel; in 1864 made brigadier general; participated in every engagement fought by his command with the exception of Bentonville, N. C., being a prisoner until Aug., 1865, at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor; studied law at Lebanon, Tenn.; practiced at Pulaski and Memphis until 1883; appointed one of the railroad commissioners of the state; received appointment in interior department, U. S., in 1885; served four years in Indian country and territories west of Rocky Mountains; resumed practice of law in Memphis until 1892, when he was elected superintendent of the city schools; elected to Congress from 10th Tenn. district, 1906, 3rd term 1910; Democrat; member Masons and I. O. O. F.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City:\u00a0 Memphis GORDON, George Washington, soldier, congressman, commander-in-chief United Confederate Veterans; born in Giles Co., Tenn., Oct. 5, 1836; son of Andrew and Eliza K. GORDON; graduated from Western Military Institute in 1859; married Ora S. PAINE, Sept. 5, 1876; in early life was practical civil engineer until outbreak of civil war; enlisted in the […]<\/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":[205,391,261,4411,4419],"tags":[1469,207],"class_list":{"0":"post-8092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-giles","7":"category-lebanon-law-school","8":"category-shelby","9":"category-surname-g","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-gordon","12":"tag-paine","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092","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=8092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8094,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092\/revisions\/8094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}