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{{short description|American lawyer}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name          = James L. Gordon
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| office = Member of the [[Virginia Senate]] for [[Albemarle County, Virginia|Albemarle]] and [[Greene County, Virginia|Greene Counties]]
| term_start         = 1886
| term_end          = December 3, 1889
| preceded = J. Richard Wingfield
| succeeded = Thomas M. Dunn
| birth_date    =1858
| birth_place   =  [[Albemarle County, Virginia|Albemarle County]], [[Virginia]]
| death_date    = November 30, 1904
| death_place   = [[New York City]]
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| occupation = lawyer and politician
| spouse = Martha Hastings Winston
| children =
| parents = George Loyall Gordon, Mary Long Daniel
| relatives = [[James Lindsay Gordon]] (uncle)<br />[[William F. Gordon]] (grandfather)
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'''James Lindsay Gordon''' (1858-November 30, 1904) was an American lawyer who briefly served in the [[Virginia Senate]] and practiced in Virginia and New York City, where he died.<ref>Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 544, 548</ref><ref>Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography (New York: 1915) p. 797</ref> He was the grandson of  U.S. Congressman [[William F. Gordon]], son of attorney and newspaper editor George Loyall Gordon (who died fighting for the Confederacy at the [[Battle of Malvern Hill]])<ref>1860 U.S. Federal Census for southern district, Louisa County, Virginia, family 312, p. 44 of 92</ref> and nephew of [[James Lindsay Gordon]] who served in the Virginia House of Delegates.
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