Nathan Green Gordon
Nathan Green Gordon (born September 4, 1916 in Morrilton , Arkansas , † September 8, 2008 in Little Rock , Arkansas) was an American politician.
Gordon attended the Columbia Military Academy in Columbia , Tennessee and the Arkansas Polytechnic College in Russellville . After he finished his law degree at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1939 , he began to practice in Morrilton. In May 1941, Gordon joined the Naval Air Corps and was trained as a pilot. During the Second World War he was deployed in the Pacific and served there for more than two years. Here he flew a Consolidated PBY . Gordon received several awards for this, including the Medal of Honor and the Distinguished Flying Cross. He received the Medal of Honor after he rescued 15 comrades on February 15, 1944 who were under enemy fire. That day Gordon had received orders to search for crashed pilots in the Bismarck Sea near Papua New Guinea . Even under fire, it was able to pick up nine men in three separate landings. On the way back he discovered a lifeboat with six other men. Under heavy fire, Gordon landed and picked up the men and flew his plane, which was overloaded at the time, to Finschhafen , a port in northern New Guinea .
After the war he returned to Morrilton and began to be politically active as a Democrat . In 1946 he was appointed lieutenant governor ( lieutenant governor elected) of Arkansas. In total, Gordon was re-elected nine times and thus held this office from January 1947 to January 1967. During this time he worked under four governors and was acting governor more often than any other politician in Arkansas history. After 1967 he returned to his previous profession and practiced as a lawyer again.
He died on Monday, September 8, 2008 shortly before midnight of complications from pneumonia .
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| SURNAME | Gordon, Nathan Green |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Morrilton , Arkansas |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 8, 2008 |
| Place of death | Little rock |