Gordon Dennis Fox (born December 21, 1961) is an American attorney and politician from Providence, Rhode Island.

On June 11, 2015 Fox was sentenced to three years in federal prison[1] after pleading guilty to charges including bribery, fraud, and filing a false tax return.

[2] Fox was elected Speaker on February 11, 2010 as the first openly gay Rhode Island man to hold that office.

[3] Fox resigned from the Speakership on the evening of March 22, 2014 following an FBI raid on his Smith Hill office and his home on Providence's East Side.

[9] Fox's parents met while his father was stopped in Providence on return to Boston after service in the Korean War.

He represented the 4th district, which included parts of the East Side of Providence, namely the Mount Hope, Summit and Blackstone neighborhoods.

[19] Fox faced conservative Democrat Gregory Schadone and Republican Robert A. Watson in the election held on February 11, 2010.

On the evening of his arrest on March 21, 2014, under call of then deputy Nicholas Mattielo, a faction of the democratic leadership would meet at the Providence Marriott, to maneuver Fox out.

[23] In the early morning office hours of Friday, March 21, 2014, Fox's Smith Hill third floor office, and his East Side home were raided by officials of the U.S. Attorney, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service and the Rhode Island State Police under sealed search warrant.

On March 3, 2015, Fox pleaded guilty to wire fraud, bribery and filing a false tax return.

[24] Fox pled guilty and in June, 2015 was sentenced to serve three years in federal prison for public corruption.

[7] In 2004, Fox was fined $10,000 by the state Ethics Commission for voting in favor of granting GTECH Corporation, a company his law firm represented, an exclusive, 20-year, $770 million contract with the Rhode Island Lottery.

[14] Following the collapse of 38 Studios, Fox was criticized for misleading lawmakers by not making clear that $75 million of a $125-million economic development loan-guarantee program were earmarked for the company.

The collapse of 38 Studios caused Fox faced a tough reelection fight in 2012 against independent Mark Binder.

In the wake of Rhode Island's Marriage Equality act, a ceremony was officiated by William Guglietta, the Chief Magistrate of the Rhode Island Traffic Court and Fox's former legal counsel, and witnessed by friend and state Health & Human Services Secretary Steven M. Costantino,[29] and the couple was officially entered into the marriage rolls of the state.