Gordon MacInnes

{{Short description|American politician (born 1941)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Gordon MacInnes

|image =

|caption =

|state_senate1=New Jersey

|district1=25th

|term_start1 = {{Start date|1994|01|11}}

|term_end1 = {{End date|1998|01|13}}

|predecessor1 = John H. Dorsey

|successor1 = Anthony Bucco

|state_assembly2=New Jersey

|district2=23rd

|term_start2 = {{Start date|1974|01|08}}

|term_end2 = {{End date|1976|01|13}}

|alongside2 = Rosemarie Totaro

|predecessor2 = District created

|successor2 = James J. Barry Jr.
John H. Dorsey

|birth_name =

|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1941|12|4}}

|birth_place = Corsicana, Texas

|party = Democratic

|alma_mater = Occidental 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.[http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/html/macinnes.htm Senator Gordon A. MacInnes (D)] {{Webarchive| url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970205120937/http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/html/macinnes.htm | date=February 5, 1997}}, New Jersey Legislature. Accessed February 8, 2024. "General Assembly 1974-76; Senate 1994-present" 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.{{Cite web |url=http://forum-network.org/speaker/gordon-macinnes |title=Gordon MacInnes | Speaker | Forum Network | Free Online Lectures from PBS and NPR |access-date=2010-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091106140926/http://forum-network.org/speaker/gordon-macinnes |archive-date=2009-11-06 |url-status=dead }} 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.[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=38483< NJ State Senate 25, 1993], OurCampaigns. Accessed February 8, 2024. He again failed to win re-election in 1997, losing to Republican Anthony Bucco, 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.{{Cite web |url=http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/news-releases/2010/02/education-expert-gor-20100202 |title=Education Expert Gordon A. MacInnes Inducted to Rutgers' Board of Governors |access-date=2010-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720113147/http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/news-releases/2010/02/education-expert-gor-20100202 |archive-date=2011-07-20 |url-status=dead }} He also is a former executive director of the New Jersey Network.[http://www.equaleducation.org/press.asp?staff=60] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100228125742/http://www.equaleducation.org/press.asp?staff=60 |date=2010-02-28 }}

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.{{cite web|url=http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/news-releases/2010/02/education-expert-gor-20100202|title=Rutgers University news release "Education Expert Gordon A. MacInnes Inducted to Rutgers' Board of Governors" February 18, 2010|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.americanprogress.org/events/2009/04/inf/MacInnesGordon.html/|title=Biography at Center for American Progress|access-date=2012-08-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090523073217/http://www.americanprogress.org/events/2009/04/inf/MacInnesGordon.html|archive-date=2009-05-23|url-status=dead}}

During the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson, MacInnes was deputy director of the White House Task Force on the Cities.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DtLgoas9kAwC|title=Wrong for All the Right Reasons: How White Liberals Have Been Undone by Race|first=Gordon|last=Macinnes|date=1 February 1996|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=9780814755433|via=Google Books}}