Edward Francis Gordon (November 18, 1928–October 16, 2013) was an American politician who served in the
Kansas House of Representatives
The Kansas House of Representatives is the lower house of the legislature of the U.S. state of Kansas. Composed of 125 state representatives from districts with roughly equal populations of at least 19,000, its members are responsible for craftin ...
and
Kansas State Senate
The Kansas Senate is the upper house of the Kansas Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Kansas. It is composed of 40 senators elected from single-member districts, each with a population of about 73,000 inhabitants. Members of ...
.
Gordon was born in
Highland, Kansas
Highland is a city in Doniphan County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 903. It is home to Highland Community College.
History
Short summary
The Highland Township was started with the foundin ...
, where he married his wife, Virginia, in 1948; they spent most of their lives in the town and were married for 65 years.
He was appointed to the Kansas House of Representatives in 1975, to fill out the remainder of the term for a seat left vacant by the resignation of
George Van Bebber.
Gordon served in the Kansas House until 1982, when the death of
John E. Chandler left the
1st senate district open. Gordon was appointed to that seat and won re-election in his own right in 1984.
He was succeeded in the Senate by
Don Sallee
Don Sallee (March 17, 1933–August 27, 2019) is an American former politician and attorney from Kansas who served as a member of both the Kansas House of Representatives and the Kansas Senate.
Sallee was born in Troy, Kansas. He served in ...
.
References
1928 births
2013 deaths
Republican Party Kansas state senators
Republican Party members of the Kansas House of Representatives
People from Doniphan County, Kansas
20th-century members of the Kansas Legislature
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