R. Lindsay Gordon Jr.

Reuben Lindsay Gordon Jr. (January 21, 1855 – December 25, 1939) was an American attorney and politician who served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1914 to 1930, representing Louisa County. Early and family life

Born in 1885 at his grandfather's Edgeworth plantation in Albemarle County, he would continue the family's legal and political traditions. His mother Eliza Z. Beale, had married his father, Reuben L. Gordon (whose first name reflected his maternal grandfather), at Fredericksburg in 1844. His family included an elder brother, William Gordon, and at least five sisters. His father practiced law in Orange County, and after his father's death, also farmed using enslaved labor, owning two enslaved families and a total of 22 slaves in the 1860 census. The elder Gordon educated this son at private schools as well as in legal matters, and would represent nearby Orange County, Virginia in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1883. John Q. Rhodes Jr. replaced him for the session that began in January 1930.

Personal life

This man, the junior Gordon married three times, first to Alice M. Winston, whose family had lived in Louisa County for generations. After her death, he married Nellie Blair Hunt, and after her death, Gordon married Mary P. Hite.