"Early History of Thurston County, Washington; Together with Biographies and
Reminiscences of those Identified with Pioneer Days." Compiled and Edited by
Mrs. George E. (Georgiana) Blankenship.  Published in Olympia, Washington, 1914.
p. 367.
 
MERRITT J. GORDON

     M. J. Gordon was the third Judge of Thurston Count; after Washington was
admitted to statehood. Upon the resignation of Mr. Joe Robinson in the summer of
1892, Governor B. P. Perry appointed Mr. Gordon to fill the vacancy thus
occasioned.
    At the general election in November, 1892, Judge Gordon was elected by the
vote of the people for a four year term serving on the bench until January,
1895, when he resigned to go on the Supreme Bench of the State. This position he
held for the succeeding three years when he was made corporation counsel for the
Northern Pacific Company and resigned to move to Spokane where he made his home
for several years.
    Judge Gordon is now senior member of the law firm of Gordon and Easterday of
Tacoma.
    He was born in Sherbrooke in the Province of Quebec March 17, 1859; began
the practice of law in Dakota Territory in 1880, residing at Aberdeen; was
district attorney of that district and city attorney of the city; president of
the Bar Association of the Fifth Judicial District, and member of the first
State Legislature of South Dakota; came to Olympia Washington, in the spring of
1890.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios. Project in May 2007 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.