David Gordon (Australian politician)
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The Honourable Sir David John Gordon |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Boothby |
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In office 11 November 1911 – 31 May 1913 |
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| Preceded by | Lee Batchelor |
| Succeeded by | George Dankel |
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4 May 1865 Riverton, South Australia |
| Died | 12 February 1946 (aged 80) Unley Park, South Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Commonwealth Liberal Party |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Sir David John Gordon (4 May 1865 – 12 February 1946) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1911 to 1913 and a member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1913 to 1944. He was briefly Minister of Education and Minister of Repatriation under Archibald Peake in 1917; he would later become a long-serving President of the Legislative Council from 1932 to 1944.
Born in Riverton, South Australia, the son of a Thomas Gordon, Scottish carpenter, miller and farmer, Gordon was educated at Stanley Grammar School, Watervale before his family moved to Ardrossan, Yorke Peninsula where he worked on the family farm.
Gordon moved to Adelaide and worked as a grain merchant. He became a deacon of the Congregational Church, and met Anna Louise Peel, a pianist at his local church, whom he married on 4 April 1888. Later that year he joined the South Australian Register, with whom he was employed for about 20 years, initially in their Port Adelaide office, then progressed through the ranks as commercial and financial editor and chief of the reporting staff, and agricultural editor of The Observer, and contributed leading articles to both papers. He was in the Press gallery of the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly for 17 years, and for 10 years was chief of the Hansard staff. As "Timoleon", he contributed the "City Scratchings" column in the The Kapunda Herald from 1901 to 1909.
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