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James Gordon (Alabama politician), American politician •
James Gordon (New York politician) (1739–1810), American Indian trader, U.S. Congressman •
James Gordon Sr. (1750–1796), American politician •
James Gordon (MP) (c. 1758–1822), member of Parliament for Stockbridge, Truro, Clitheroe and Tregony •
James Gordon (Upper Canada politician) (1786–1865), Upper Canada political figure •
James Wright Gordon (J. Wright Gordon, 1809–1853), Whig politician from Michigan •
James Lindsay Gordon (1813–1877) attorney and member of the Virginia House of Delegates •
James Gordon (Mississippi politician) (1833–1912), American planter, U.S. Senator •
James Gordon (Australian politician) (1845–1914), New South Wales politician •
James Lindsay Gordon (attorney) (1858–1904), American attorney and Virginia state senator, nephew of James Lindsay Gordon •
James Thomas Gordon (1859–1919), Canadian politician, Manitoba •
James H. Gordon (1868–1936), American judge, Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court •
James L. Gordon (1917–1967), American-Filipino politician •
James Fleming Gordon (1918–1990), U.S. federal judge •
Jim Gordon (politician) (born 1937), Canadian politician •
James Gordon (New Brunswick politician) (born 1949), Canadian politician •
James D. Gordon III (born 1954), American legal academic ==Religion==