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  2. John Gordon (author) - Wikipedia

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    John (Jack) William Gordon (19 November 1925 – 20 November 2017) was an English writer of young-adult supernatural fiction. He wrote sixteen chlldren's fantasy novels, including The Giant Under the Snow , four short story collections, over fifty short stories, and a teenage memoir.

  3. John Gordon (convict) - Wikipedia

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    John Gordon (c. 1815 – February 14, 1845) [1] was the last person executed by the U.S. state of Rhode Island. His conviction and execution have been ascribed by researchers to anti- Roman Catholic and anti- Irish immigrant bias. [ 2 ]

  4. Capital punishment in Rhode Island - Wikipedia

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    John Gordon was hanged on February 14, 1845. It was the last execution in Rhode Island. On January 23, 1852, after seven years of discussion and debate concerning Gordon’s conviction and the merits of capital punishment, the Senate Committee on Education issued a report.

  5. John B. Gordon - Wikipedia

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    John Brown Gordon (() February 6, 1832 – () January 9, 1904) was an American politician, Confederate States Army general, attorney, slaveowner and planter. "One of Robert E. Lee's most trusted generals" by the end of the Civil War according to historian Ed Bearss, [1]: 241 he strongly opposed Reconstruction era.

  6. John Gordon - Wikipedia

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    John Gordon (scenic artist) (c. 1874–1911), in Australia, son of George Gordon; John Gordon (songwriter) (born 1963), Australian singer-songwriter and music producer; John Gordon (Danish musician) , writer of the 2010 Eurovision song "Satellite" John Gordon (author) (1925–2017), English writer of teenage supernatural fiction

  7. Charles George Gordon - Wikipedia

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    Gordon was born in Woolwich, Kent, a son of Major General Henry William Gordon (1786–1865) and Elizabeth (1792–1873), daughter of Samuel Enderby Junior.The men of the Gordon family had served as officers in the British Army for four generations, and as a son of a general, Gordon was raised to be the fifth generation; the possibility that Gordon would pursue anything other than a military ...

  8. John A. Gordon - Wikipedia

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    John Alexander Gordon (August 22, 1946 – April 19, 2020) was an American air force general who served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He also served as the President's Homeland Security advisor from 2003 to 2004.

  9. John Gordon (militia captain) - Wikipedia

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    John Gordon, (July 15, 1759 – June 6, 1819) was an American pioneer, Indian trader, planter, and militia captain in several Indian wars. Part of the post-Revolutionary War settlement of the trans- Appalachian frontier , Gordon was an early settler in the Nashville , Tennessee area.