Thomas Boston Gordon
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Thomas Boston Gordon (1816–1891) made a career as a lawyer and county judge for Bath County, Kentucky. He was a civil war captain for the Confederate States of America under Johnson's Brigade. He was one of the eight founding members of the Beta Theta Pi national fraternity at Miami University on August 8, 1839 and received his A.B. degree from Miami in 1840.
Other founders of Beta Theta Pi:
- John Reily Knox 1839
- Samuel Taylor Marshall 1840
- David Linton 1839
- James George Smith 1840
- Charles Henry Hardin 1841
- John Holt Duncan 1840
- Michael Clarkson Ryan 1839
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- Brown, James T., ed., Catalogue of Beta Theta Pi, New York: 1917.
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