1. Home
  2. Appointees
  3. Peyton Gordon

Peyton Gordon

Associate Justice, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Supreme Court of the District of Columbia) · 1928

Peyton Gordon , Associate Justice, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Supreme Court of the District of Columbia). Peyton Gordon (April 30, 1870 – September 17, 1946) was an Associate Justice of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.

Education

  • Columbian University School of Law (now George Washington University Law School)LL.B., 1890
  • Columbian University School of Law (now George Washington University Law School)LL.M., 1891

Career

Assistant U.S. attorney, District of Columbia, 1891-1904; Pardon attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, 1904-1907; Special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, 1907-1913; Private practice, Washington, D.C., 1914-1917, 1918-1921; U.S. Army, JAG Department, 1917-1918; U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, 1921-1928

Biography

Peyton Gordon (April 30, 1870 – September 17, 1946) was an Associate Justice of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

More

From Senate roll call votes, Wikidata, Wikipedia and Office of Government Ethics records.

Cite or embed this page

Capitol Receipts, “Peyton Gordon : Associate Justice, U.S. District Court for the…,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/appointee/j891/peyton-gordon (accessed 2026-10-13).