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Show General cordon dies at memphis kLEMPHIH. Aug. IS -Oeorge W. Oor-eVn. Oor-eVn. commander-in-chief of The Confederate Confed-erate Veterans and a member ef con-" con-" greae, died at his home here yesterday. Mis IllnefS dated from his last political oaempalgn, when he was re-elected t the national house f representatlvea, the last i general of the Confederacy to serve in i that body. Hs was born la Ol.ee county, Tenn., October . I "It. .He nw much servtee In the Civil war. tn 1185 he was connected with the federal fed-eral department of the Interior. He waa elected a member of the Sixtieth congress con-gress from the Tenth Tennessee district ftrd re-elected lo the Sixty -first and Sixty-eecond congreeaea. General Oordoa wsv chosen commander n-hif of the Confederate Veterans at the reunion ef 110 al Most Is, Ala., and was reelected last slay. J Immediately after the rloee ef his last rolltlcal campaign Genera I Gordon's tslth. bersn tq fait Asthma In a severe , form al larked him, uraemia developed and In hi weakened condition he could Set withstand the added complications. |