James Gordon (Australian politician)

James Gordon (27 June 1845 – 22 November 1914) was an Australian politician.

He was born at Braidwood to pastoralist Hugh Gordon and Mary Macarthur. He was educated at Macquarie Fields and then became a solicitor's clerk, being admitted as a solicitor in 1869. He settled in Young, and on 9 January 1872 married Eleanor Jamieson Grant, with whom he had seven children. In 1887 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as a Free Trade member for Young. He was defeated in 1889. Gordon died at Young in 1914.