Gordon Voss

{{Short description|American politician and mechanical engineer}}

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

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Gordon Owen Voss

|state_house = Minnesota

|district =

|prior_term =

|term_start = 1973

|term_end = 1989

|birth_date ={{birth date|1938|02|25}}

|birth_place =Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.

|death_date ={{death date and age|2017|06|21|1938|02|25}}

|death_place = Wayzata, Minnesota, U.S.

}}

Gordon Owen Voss (February 25, 1938 – June 21, 2017) was an American politician and mechanical engineer.

Born in Duluth, Minnesota, Voss received his bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota. He served on the city planning and zoning commission for Blaine, Minnesota. Voss then served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1973 to 1989 and was a Democrat. On January 4, 1989, Voss resigned from the Minnesota Legislature when he was appointed chief administrator of the Minnesota Metropolitan Waste Control Commission.[http://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail?ID=10689 Minnesota Legislators Past and Present-Gordon Voss]

On June 21, 2017, Voss was killed in an automobile accident in Wayzata, Minnesota, where he lived.{{Cite web |url=http://kstp.com/news/man-killed-wayzata-crash-identified-former-lawmaker-gordon-owen-voss/4523375/ |title=Man Killed in Wayzata Crash is Former Lawmaker |access-date=2017-06-24 |archive-date=2017-06-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170625014120/http://kstp.com/news/man-killed-wayzata-crash-identified-former-lawmaker-gordon-owen-voss/4523375/ |url-status=dead }}