Reuben Lindsay Gordon Jr.

  Reuben Lindsay Gordon Jr. was born January 21, 1855 in Orange County, Virginia to Reuben Lindsay Gordon and Elizabeth Somerville Beale.
  Gordon was a lawyer in Louisa County and served as Commonwealth’s Attorney from 1890 to 1905. He was also a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1901-1902 and was a representative of the House of Delegate in 1914.
  Gordon was married a total of three times. His first marriage was to Alice M. Winston in 1884; this marriage ended with the death of Alice. He then married Nellie Blair Hunt in 1921 and then Mary Hiter in 1927. When he married Mary he was 72 and she was 36. They had one son together: Reuben Lindsay Gordon III, born in 1927.
  Gordon was noted for his independence and outspokenness, always doing what he though to be right. He was a member of the Equal Suffrage League, however none of his wives appear to have ever registered to vote and none were recorded as members of the ESL.