Gordon Linton

{{short description|American politician}}

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| image = Gordon Linton.jpg

| caption = Federal Transit Administration Official portrait

| name = Gordon J. Linton

| office = Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration

| president = Bill Clinton

| term_start = 1993

| term_end = 1999

| predecessor = Brian Clymer

| successor = Jennifer Dorn

| state_house1 = Pennsylvania

| district1 = 200th

|term_start1 = January 4, 1983

|term_end1 = August 13, 1993

|predecessor1 = John F. White Jr.

|successor1 = LeAnna Washington

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|3|26}}{{cite book|title=The Pennsylvania Manual|author1=McQuown, L.S.|author2=Pennsylvania|author3=Ehgartner, G.|author4=Pennsylvania. Dept. of Property and Supplies|author5=Pennsylvania. Bureau of Publications|date=1993|volume=111|publisher=Department of Property and Supplies for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania|isbn=978-0-8182-0177-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zUmJAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=November 18, 2014}}

| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

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| party = Democratic

| alma_mater = Lincoln University, B.A. Antioch University, M.Ed

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Gordon J. Linton (born March 26, 1948) served as Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration in the United States Department of Transportation ( 1993-1999). He was nominated by President Bill Clinton, confirmed by the United States Senate and appointed by the President on August 6, 1993.