Edmond Joseph Gong (October 7, 1930 – May 19, 2015) was an American attorney and politician in the state of Florida.

Gong stated, "as Daddy used to say, the soil was getting pretty barren and not so productive, and they all wanted to come to the 'golden mountain' that was the name for America.

It was this spirit and his father's encouragement that led Eddie and his four sisters to be politically active in high school.

At Harvard, he made a life long friend, Ji Chaozhu who became Ambassador from China to the UK along with other diplomatic posts.

Eddie always believed they had led parallel lives after Ji left Harvard at the founding of the PRC on October 1, 1949.

After a short time in private practice he met then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy who offered him a position with the Justice Department in Washington.

During the 1960s Gong's name became well known and his passion for public service coincided with Florida's reapportionment which created new seats in the Legislature.

[7]” In 1947 he met two fellow participants at Florida's Boys State, William "Wig" D. Barrow and Lawton Chiles.

[8] He 1971 served as Associate Director of the Institute of Politics at John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.