Charles Benjamin William Gordon Sr.

Rev. Charles Benjamin William Gordon Sr. (1861–1941) was an American newspaper publisher, author, journalist, and Baptist minister. He was the publisher and editor of The National Pilot (The Pilot), a Baptist weekly newspaper published in Petersburg, Virginia.

Biography Charles Benjamin William Gordon was born on November 1, 1861, in Colerian, Bertie County, North Carolina. He attended education classes with Thomas Mixon in Roanoke Island, North Carolina.

He was the pastor at one of the largest congregations, at the First Baptist Church in Petersburg, Virginia. In 1890, he founded Tabernacle Baptist Church in Petersburg. He died on September 15, 1941, in Petersburg City, Virginia, and is buried at Little Church Street Cemetery.

A profile of Gordon is included in the books, The Afro-American Press and Its Editors (1891), and Who's Who Among the Colored Baptists of the United States (1890).