18-1202: General Gordon may refer to: People [ edit ] United Kingdom [ edit ] Lord Adam Gordon (British Army officer) (1726–1801), British Army general Alexander Gordon (general) (1670–1752), Scottish general who fought under Peter the Great in 1696–1711, and for the Jacobites in the Jacobite rising of 1715 Alexander Hamilton-Gordon (British Army officer, born 1817) (1817–1890), British Army general Alexander Hamilton-Gordon (British Army officer, born 1859) (1859–1939), British Army lieutenant-general Andrew Gordon (British Army officer) (died 1806), British Army lieutenant-general Charles George Gordon (1833–1885), British Army major-general and administrator also known as Chinese Gordon and Gordon of Khartoum Cosmo Gordon (1736–1800), British Army general Desmond Gordon (1911–1997), British Army major general Frederick Gordon (British Army officer) (1861–1927), British Army brigadier and temporary major-general in
36-655: A decade except for the 1821-1822 session. Thus, Gordon served from 1818 to 1821 alongside first Samuel Carr, then Thomas Mann Randolph until legislators elected him governor, then Charles Everett, and during those sessions helped established the University of Virginia in his district. After the hiatus in which Everett and Charles Cocke represented Albemarle County, Gordon again won re-election several times until 1829, serving first alongside William C. Rives as well as again with Thomas Mann Randolph, then Rice W. Wood, Charles Cocke and Hugh Nelson. In 1829, Gordon won election to
54-635: A plantation near an iron furnace established at the beginning of the century by former Virginia Governor Alexander Spotswood. In 1787, James Gordon owned 21 enslaved adults and 34 enslaved Blacks younger than 16, along with 17 horses, a stud horse, 51 cattle and a 4-wheeled chaise carriage in Orange County. His maternal grandmother was a cousin of Benjamin Harrison , signer of the Declaration of Independence and governor of Virginia. Thus linked to
72-720: A similar career path as a lawyer in Alexandria and Charlottesville but became a newspaper editor instead of a politician and married the eldest daughter of North Carolina judge Joseph J. Daniel. As the Civil War started, he joined the 15th North Carolina regiment (Edgecombe Guards) and died at the Battle of Malvern Hill . His son Armistead C. Gordon (W.F. Gordon's grandson), born at his grandfather's Edgeworth plantation and raised at Longwood plantation in North Carolina, became
90-556: A troop transport Attorney General Gordon (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title General Gordon . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=General_Gordon&oldid=1055257167 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Title and name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
108-620: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Lord Adam Gordon (British Army officer) Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.150 via cp1114 cp1114, Varnish XID 922679073 Upstream caches: cp1114 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:50:05 GMT William F. Gordon William Fitzhugh Gordon (January 13, 1787 – July 21, 1858)
126-566: The First Families of Virginia , William Gordon attended private schools appropriate to his class, including Spring Hill Academy. After completing those studies, he read law. Admitted to the bar in 1808, Gordon began his legal career at Orange Court House . He moved to Charlottesville in Albemarle County in 1809. There he continued his practice and in 1812 won election as the city's commonwealth attorney . Gordon served in
144-887: The Rappahannock River to Urbanna in Middlesex County and married Lucy Churchill, who bore a dozen children, including this man's father, who served in the Virginia House of Delegates alongside his cousin and father-in-law James Gordon Sr. (son of the immigrant James Gordon, and who inherited Verville plantation in Lancaster County). Although the immigrant John Gordon ultimately settled in Richmond County , James Gordon Jr. moved westward to near Germanna in what became Spotsylvania County and then Orange County , where he established
162-597: The War of 1812 , then continued to serve in the Virginia Militia , in 1829 accepting a commission as brigadier general from then-governor William B. Giles, and becoming major general of the Second Brigade in 1840. Following the war, Albemarle County voters elected Gordon as one of their representatives in the Virginia House of Delegates , and re-elected him annually to that part-time position basically for
180-606: The 1840 federal census. and the 1850 federal census, Gordon owned 54 slaves. Gordon married twice. His first wife, Mary Robinson Rootes, daughter of Thomas Reade Rootes of Fredericksburg died without bearing any children who survived. He remarried, to Elizabeth Lindsay, daughter of Col. Reuben Lindsay of Albemarle County, who had fought in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. They had eight sons (six of whom became soldiers in
198-771: The American Civil War George Gordon (Civil War general) (1836–1911), Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War George Henry Gordon (1823–1886), Union Army general in the American Civil War James B. Gordon (1822–1864), Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War John A. Gordon (born 1946), U.S. Air Force general John Brown Gordon (1832-1904), Confederate States Army general in
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#1732783805406216-797: The American Civil War Walter Henry Gordon (1863–1924), U.S. Army major general William F. Gordon (1787–1858), Virginia Militia major general William Washington Gordon II (1834–1912), U.S. Army brigadier general Others [ edit ] Humberto Gordon (1927–2000), Chilean Army general Ian Gordon (general) (born 1952), Australian Army major general Joseph Maria Gordon (1856–1929), Australian Army major-general Other uses [ edit ] General Gordon Elementary School , Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada See also [ edit ] Fred A. Gorden (born 1940), U.S. Army major general USS General W. H. Gordon (AP-117) ,
234-689: The Confederate Army) and three daughters who reached maturity. Gordon died at his Edgeworth plantation in Albemarle County, Virginia on July 21, 1858. He was interred at the family cemetery in Springfield, Virginia . His eldest son James Lindsay Gordon (1813-1877) became a lawyer and served two terms in the Virginia House of Delegates, but did not have any children. His brother George Loyall Gordon (1829-1862) followed
252-552: The Southern Convention in Nashville, Tennessee in 1850 as a delegate. He served as a Democrat . After failing to win reelection in 1835, Gordon returned to farming and his legal practice. Gordon lived in a planter economy largely dependent upon slavery, and as a landholder, his plantation operated with enslaved labor. He owned 29 slaves in Albemarle County in 1820, 44 slaves in the 1830 federal census. In both
270-606: The Virginia Senate, where he represented Albemarle County, as well as nearby Amherst , Nelson , Fluvanna and Goochland Counties . Gordon also represented Albemarle, Amherst, Nelson, Fluvanna and Goochland counties in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830 alongside James Pleasants, Lucas P. Thompson and Thomas Massie Jr. He proposed the "mixed basis" compromise ultimately adopted when western representatives complained about
288-1416: The early Royal Air Force George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly (1514–1562), Scottish nobleman and commander of the King's Army at the Battle of Haddon Rig George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon (1770–1836), Scottish British Army general George Gordon-Lennox (1908–1988), British Army lieutenant-general Hugh Gordon (British Army officer) (1760–1823), British Army lieutenant general James Gordon (British Army officer, born 1957) , British Army major-general James Willoughby Gordon (1772–1851), British Army general John James Hood Gordon (1832–1908), British Army general John William Gordon (1814–1870), British Army major-general Patrick Gordon (1635–1699), Scottish general and rear admiral in Russia Robert Gordon (British Army officer) (born 1950), British Army major general Robert Gordon-Finlayson (1881–1956), British Army general Robert Gordon-Finlayson (British Army officer, born 1916) (1916–2001), British Army major general Thomas Edward Gordon (1832–1914), British Army general William Gordon (British Army officer) (1736–1818), British Army general United States [ edit ] B. Frank Gordon (1826–1866), acting Confederate States Army general in
306-662: The overrepresentation of Tidewater planters in the Virginia General Assembly. In 1830, Gordon resigned from the Virginia Senate to succeed William Cabell Rives in the United States House of Representatives , and won re-election as a Jacksonian , serving until 1835. He earned the nickname "Sub-Treasury Gordon" for helping to devise the Sub-Treasury Act in 1844, an act that separated the federal government from banks. Gordon attended
324-765: Was a nineteenth-century, lawyer, military officer, politician and planter from the piedmont region of Virginia . William Fitzhugh Gordon was born at "Germanna", a plantation near Fredericksburg, Virginia to Elizabeth Gordon and her husband (and cousin) James Gordon, Jr. (1759-1799). His grandfather John Gordon had emigrated to the Virginia colony in 1738 from County Down in northern Ireland, as did his elder brother James Gordon (1711-1768), and they both became successful tobacco merchants and planters in Virginia's Tidewater region. John Gordon had initially joined his brother's business in Lancaster County , but moved across
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