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Barton Jennings "Bart" Gordon (born January 24, 1949) is a politician from the state of Tennessee, representing the Sixth Congressional District.
Gordon was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and he graduated from Middle Tennessee State University. Gordon was the state chairman of the Tennessee Democratic Party. He won a seat in the House of Representatives in 1984 in a hard-fought race against the brother of the publisher of Nashville, Tennessee's former conservative newspaper, the Nashville Banner. Gordon is regarded as a moderate. He has favored the repeal of the inheritance tax and the "marriage tax penalty". He was opposed by Marsha Blackburn, who now represents an adjacent district, in 1992. Gordon's closest (52-48%) re-election race was in 1994 against attorney Steve Gill, a former University of Tennessee basketball player who is now a radio talk show host who also ran a fairly competitive (46%) race against him in 1996. In 1998 and 2000, Gordon defeated his Republican opponents more handily. Gordon was re-elected by a large margin in 2002 and has no significant opposistion in 2004, in large part because the 2002 reapportionment by the Democratic-controlled Tennessee General Assembly removed Williamson County, a large suburban area south south of Nashville which is very stongly conservative and Republican, from the Sixth Congressional District and added it to the already overwhlemingly-Republican Seventh District.
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