Reuben Lindsay Gordon Jr. (January 21, 1855 – December 25, 1939) was an American attorney and politician who served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1914 to 1930, representing Louisa County.

[1][2] Born in 1885 at his grandfather's Edgeworth plantation in Albemarle County, he would continue the family's legal and political traditions.

[2] After being admitted to the Virginia bar, Gordon served as the Commonwealth Attorney (prosecutor) for Louisa County for 16 years (repeating his father's and grandfather's career paths).

Nearly a decade later, Louisa voters elected Gordon to represent them in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1913, and re-elected him to that part-time position until the start of the Great Depression.

This man, the junior Gordon married three times, first to Alice M. Winston, whose family had lived in Louisa County for generations.