John King Gordon (1900–1989) was a Canadian Christian minister, editor, United Nations official, and academic.
Biography
Gordon was born on 6 December 1900 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the son of the novelist and future Presbyterian Church moderator Charles Gordon (known by the pen name "Ralph Connor") and his wife Helen King. One of his six sisters was the diplomat and educationalist Marjorie Gordon Smart. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Manitoba in 1920. A Rhodes scholar, he studied at The Queen's College, Oxford, from 1920 to 1921. Ordained in 1927, he was a United Church of Canada minister in Manitoba. From 1931 of Christian ethics at the United Theological College in Montreal. He was dismissed from the college in 1934 because of his socialist views. and the journalist and novelist Alison Gordon.
In 1933, Gordon was one of the authors of the Regina Manifesto and was involved in the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. From 1944 to 1947, he was managing editor of The Nation magazine. From 1947 to 1950, he was the United Nations correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). From 1950 to 1962, he was the human rights and information officer circa 1975.