Biography                                       

Orthopedic surgeon, Vietnam veteran, and small businessman, Dr. Jack Gordon has touched many lives in many states across this great country.

Born in Calif. to military parents, Dr. Gordon moved several times before attending Holy Cross College and Georgetown U. Medical School. He trained at the Washington Hospital Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Union Memorial Hospital.  In Vietnam Dr. Gordon served with the U.S. Army Medical Corps and the First Cavalry Division.  Dr. Jack Gordon has practiced Orthopedic Surgery for 35 yrs. Along the way he has been a teacher, a member of the VFW, the American Legion, The Vietnam Veterans of America and the Boards of the Essex Community College and the local Chamber of Commerce. He is the past President of the Maryland Orthopedic Association and serves on the legislative committee of the Medical and Surgical Faculty of Maryland.  He supports the Tea Party Coalition and the Americans for Prosperity. He owned the Bayou Blues Cafe at the Avenue at White Marsh from 1998 until it closed in April of 2009 because of the recession. He has lived through the stress and pain of a business loss.

A lifelong sportsman, Dr. Gordon attends Orioles Fantasy Camp, plays Rugby locally and internationally and has been the team doctor and game day doctor for rugby matches all over the world.

Dr. Jack Gordon brings a wealth of practical experience in business and health matters that will serve district 42 well. He appreciates that people need help to negotiate through this complicated health care bill. He understands the challenges that we are facing today on economic as well as the health care fronts.

He wants a government that will protect our freedoms, not one that gives everything for free. That kind of fiscal irresponsibility has already threatened to bankrupt the next generation. Dr. Gordon will work to change that.