- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- John B. Gordon
- Date of Original:
- 1855/1865
- Subject:
- Governors--Georgia
Legislators--United States
Confederate States of America. Army--Officers
Politicians--Georgia--Atlanta
Authors, American--Georgia
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans
Gordon, John Brown, 1832-1904 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- John B. Gordon, a renowned Confederate officer and political leader, was a member of the Farmers' Alliance in Georgia until the organization's split with the Democratic Party in 1892. A member of the Bourbon Triumvirate, Gordon served multiple terms in the U.S. Senate and, from 1886 to 1890, as governor of the state.
Photograph of General John B. Gordon. Wearing a suit, he faces right in this standing portrait.
Gordon, a renowned Confederate officer and political leader, was a member of the Farmers' Alliance in Georgia until the organization's split with the Democratic Party in 1892. A member of the Bourbon Triumvirate, Gordon served multiple terms in the U.S. Senate and, from 1886 to 1890, as governor of the state. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/john-b-gordon-1832-1904/m-4965/
- Digital Object URL:
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Brown_Gordon_-_Brady-Handy.jpg
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/farmers-alliance
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/bourbon-triumvirate
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia
Brady-Handy Photograph Collection - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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