Gordon Newell Mott

Gordon Newell Mott (October 21, 1812 – April 27, 1887) was the second and final delegate to the United States House of Representatives from Nevada Territory, serving from March 1863 until statehood.

He was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln associate justice of the supreme court of Nevada Territory on March 27, 1861, and served until his resignation in 1863, having been elected to Congress.

Mott was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth Congress and served from March 4, 1863, to October 31, 1864, when the Nevada Territory became a state.

According to one account, Mott "should have traveled to Washington, but instead he journeyed to Ohio, allegedly because of his health", and therefore "never took his seat in Congress".

This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress