About: James Gordon (Australian politician)

James Gordon (27 June 1845 – 22 November 1914) was a politician and solicitor in New South Wales, Australia. He was born at Braidwood to pastoralist Hugh Gordon and Mary Macarthur. His grandfather was Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur. He was educated at Macquarie Fields by his uncle, the Reverend . He became an articled clerk to solicitor John Dunsmore then an associate to John Hargrave in the District Court before being admitted as a solicitor in 1869. He settled in Young, and on 9 January 1872 married Eleanor Jamieson Grant, with whom he had seven children. In 1887 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as a Free Trade member for Young. He was defeated in 1889.