Bart Gordon



Barton Jennings "Bart" Gordon, a Democrat, is a former U.S. Representative for the 6th Congressional District of Tennessee, having served January 1985-2011. (map)

Environmental record
For more information on environmental legislation, see the Energy and Environment Policy Portal

Bio
Gordon was born January 24, 1949 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University. Gordon was the state chairman of the Tennessee. When Sixth District Congressman Al Gore ran for the U. S. Senate in 1984, Gordon won a hard-fought race for Gore's former seat.

Congressional career
Gordon is frequently described as a moderate.

Gordon was reelected by large margins until 1994, when his Republican opponent was attorney Steve Gill], a former University of Tennessee basketball player who is now a radio talk show host. Gordon only won by one percentage point, but managed to defeat Gill more handily in 1996. Gordon was re-elected by large margins in 1998 and 2000. He faced no significant opposition in 2002 and 2004, in large part because the 2002 reapportionment by the Democratic-controlled Tennessee General Assembly removed Williamson County, a large suburban area south of Nashville which is very strongly conservative and Republican, from the Sixth Congressional District and added it to the already overwhelmingly-Republican Seventh District. That district is now represented by Marsha Blackburn, a Williamson County resident who was Gordon's opponent in 1992.

2006 elections
In 2006, the Republicans nominated David R. Davis to face Gordon in his November 2006 bid for reelection. (See U.S. congressional elections in 2006)  Gordon retained his seat.

2010 elections
In 2009, Gordon announced that he would retire at the end of his term. The House seat was picked up by Republican Diane Black.

Money in politics
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Committees

 * House Committee on Energy and Commerce
 * Subcommittee on Health
 * Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet
 * House Committee on Science and Technology, Chair
 * Subcommittee on Environment and Energy
 * Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
 * Subcommittee on Research and Science Education
 * Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics
 * Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation

Former contact
DC Office: 2304 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Phone: 202-225-4231 Fax: 202-225-6887 Web Email Website

District Office- Cookeville: 15 South Jefferson Cookeville, TN 38501 Phone: 931-528-5907 Fax:

District Office- Gallatin: 100 Public Square, Room B-100 Gallatin, TN 37066 Phone: 615-451-5174 Fax:

District Office- Murfreesboro: 305 West Maple Street Murfreesboro, TN 37130 Phone: 615-896-1986 Fax:

District Office- Springfield: 101 Fifth Avenue West, Suite D Springfield, TN 37172 Phone: 615-382-9712 Fax:

Articles and resources

 * Official website
 * Open Secrets - 2006 congressional races database