Politics
- James Gordon (New York) (1739–1810), American Indian trader, U.S. Congressman
- James Gordon (MP) (c. 1758–1822), Member of Parliament for Truro, 1790–1796, and Clitheroe, 1808–1812
- James Gordon (Upper Canada politician) (1786–1865), Upper Canada political figure
- James Gordon (Mississippi) (1833–1912), American planter, U.S. Senator
- Jim Gordon (politician) (born 1937), Canadian politician
- James Leonard T. Gordon (1917–1967), American-Filipino politician
- James Thomas Gordon (1859–?), Canadian politician, Manitoba
- James Wright Gordon (J. Wright Gordon, 1809–1853), Whig politician from Michigan
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