page_title: John Fawcett Gordon
hierarchical_section_title: John Fawcett Gordon
caption_attribution_description: English: John F. Gordon MP and Northern Irish prime minister John Andrews. Believed to be at Stormont in the 1940s. Family collection.
context_page_description: John Fawcett Gordon PC was a politician in Northern Ireland.
  Son of William James Gordon and Margaret Fawcett. Husband of Charlotte Banks.
  Born in the Belfast area, Gordon was sent to live with relatives in the US after his father died and was educated at Falls River School, Massachusetts, United States. He was manager of flax camps and a member of Belfast Corporation from 1920–23. He was the Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament in the Northern Ireland parliament for Antrim and then Carrick from 1921–43.
  He served as Minister of Labour from 1938–43. Prior to that, he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour from 1921. He served as Chairman of the National Assistance Board of Northern Ireland from 1943-56 when he retired, although he was serving as Governor's Deputy as late as 1964
  He is the great-grandfather of Jonathan McDowell.
context_section_description: John Fawcett Gordon PC(NI) (13 May 1879 – 21 June 1965) was a politician in Northern Ireland.
  Son of William James Gordon and Margaret Fawcett. Husband of Charlotte Banks.
  Born in the Belfast area, Gordon was sent to live with relatives in the US after his father died and was educated at Falls River School, Massachusetts, United States. He was manager of flax camps and a member of Belfast Corporation from 1920–23. He was the Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament (MP) in the Northern Ireland parliament for Antrim and then Carrick from 1921–43.
  He served as Minister of Labour (Northern Ireland) from 1938–43. Prior to that, he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour from 1921. He served as Chairman of the National Assistance Board of Northern Ireland from 1943-56 when he retired, although  he was serving as Governor's Deputy as late as 1964 
  He is the great-grandfather of Jonathan McDowell.
caption: John F. Gordon MP (left) and Northern Irish Prime Minister John Andrews, 1940s at Stormont.
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