Lena Trent Gordon (1885 – June 14, 1935) was an American social worker, orator, government official, and poet, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

[9][10] Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick, congressman William Scott Vare, and other officials gave testimonials a banquet in her honor in 1924.

[11] She worked in the presidential campaigns of Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover, and for other Republican candidates for political office.

[18][19] She gave a lecture in Pittsburgh in 1925[20] on "Religion and World Culture": "The inventors, astronomers, poets and scientists teach us every day that man's real happiness is only to be found along the road of progress," she declared, adding "Every hour is crowded full of fascinating problems, all awaiting investigation.

"[21] In 1928, she was on the program of speakers for the All-Philadelphia Inter-racial Peace Meeting, along with pacifists Wilbur K. Thomas and Camille Drevet, labor leader J. Finley Wilson, Mayor Harry A. Mackey, Alice Dunbar Nelson, and W. E. B.