Gordon MacInnes

Gordon MacInnes
Member of the New Jersey Senate
from the 25th district
In office
January 11, 1994 (1994-01-11) – January 13, 1998 (1998-01-13)
Preceded byJohn H. Dorsey
Succeeded byAnthony Bucco
Member of the New Jersey General Assembly
from the 23rd district
In office
January 8, 1974 (1974-01-08) – January 13, 1976 (1976-01-13)
Serving with Rosemarie Totaro
Preceded byDistrict created
Succeeded byJames J. Barry Jr.
John H. Dorsey
Personal details
Born (1941-12-04) December 4, 1941 (age 82)
Corsicana, Texas
Political partyDemocratic
Alma materOccidental College (AB)
Princeton University (MPA)

Gordon A. MacInnes (born December 4, 1941) is an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey who has served in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature.[1] MacInnes was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1973 in a heavily Republican Morris County district, as part of the Watergate-driven Democratic landslide of that year. He was defeated in his re-election bid in 1975.[2] In 1993, he won election to the New Jersey Senate in a major upset over incumbent Senate Majority Leader John H. Dorsey, again in a heavily Republican district.[3] He again failed to win re-election in 1997, losing to Republican Anthony Bucco,[2] who continued to hold that Senate seat until his death in 2019.

MacInnes also served as Assistant Commissioner in the New Jersey Department of Education from 2002 to 2007. A resident of Morristown, New Jersey, he was confirmed in 2010 as a member of the Board of Governors of Rutgers University.[4] He also is a former executive director of the New Jersey Network.[5]

MacInnes is the president of New Jersey Policy Perspective, a left-leaning, nonprofit organization that researches and analyzes economic issues. MacInnes is a fellow at the Century Foundation in New York and was a lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.[6][7]

During the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson, MacInnes was deputy director of the White House Task Force on the Cities.[8]

  1. ^ Senator Gordon A. MacInnes (D) Archived February 5, 1997, at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Legislature. Accessed February 8, 2024. "General Assembly 1974-76; Senate 1994-present"
  2. ^ a b "Gordon MacInnes | Speaker | Forum Network | Free Online Lectures from PBS and NPR". Archived from the original on 2009-11-06. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
  3. ^ < NJ State Senate 25, 1993, OurCampaigns. Accessed February 8, 2024.
  4. ^ "Education Expert Gordon A. MacInnes Inducted to Rutgers' Board of Governors". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
  5. ^ [1] Archived 2010-02-28 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Rutgers University news release "Education Expert Gordon A. MacInnes Inducted to Rutgers' Board of Governors" February 18, 2010".
  7. ^ "Biography at Center for American Progress". Archived from the original on 2009-05-23. Retrieved 2012-08-11.
  8. ^ Macinnes, Gordon (1 February 1996). Wrong for All the Right Reasons: How White Liberals Have Been Undone by Race. NYU Press. ISBN 9780814755433 – via Google Books.