Potentate Don Gordon was born August 03, 1951 in the Town of Skowhegan, Maine He was brought up in the Upper Kennebec Valley Town of Bingham. He graduated from Upper Valley Memorial High School in 1971 and moved to Bangor in 1972
Potentate Don Gordon was raised a Master Mason by his father Douglas Gordon in 1984 at Lynde Lodge, Hermon, Maine. He joined the line of officers soon after that and was Master in 1992 +/-. Don was initiated into the Shrine in 1984, and shortly after that joined the Provost Guard and was Provost Marshall in 1990 and 1991. He joined the Circus Committee as an Assistant Chairman in 1991 and became Circus Director in 1999. He retired as Circus Director at the end of 2006. He was appointed Outer Guard in 2011.
He is married to the former Gail Ramoska and has three children, Jamie West, Nathan Gordon and Sarah Morris. Don and Gail have three grandchildren, Bryce, Molly and Owen.
Professionally Don has been employed by Jordan Gorrill Associates as a soils mechanics lab technician and field inspector. He then was employed by E.C Jordan in the same position. He also was employed by SW Cole Engineering as a field technician and as the manager of the soils mechanic laboratory. In 1988 he left SW Cole engineering and became employed as a real estate appraiser and was trained by Illustrious Sir Guy Chapman. He then went on to form Maine Appraisal Services with a partner and eventually founded Gordon Appraisal Services, he is still self employed as a real estate appraiser and is certified as a State of Maine General Appraiser and specializes as a residential appraiser.
* LLOYD O. COFFIN 1969
*GALEN L. COLE 1968
* HERSCHEL K. MCINTOSH 1967
* ROY U. SINCLAIR 1966
* HENRY P. CUSHMAN 1965
* SHELDON F. GOLDTHWAITH 1964
* FRANK H. FENDERSON 1963
* EARLE R. WEBSTER 1962
* STEPHEN R. BUZZELL 1961
* CHARLES H. LANG 1960
* GEORGE F. PEABODY 1959
* HAROLD W. WORTHEN 1958
* PERCY H. CAMBELL 1957
* GLEASON A. RAND 1956
* RALPH C. MASTERMAN 1955
* JAMES A MURRAY 1954
* C. IVAN HUNTLEY 1953
* FRANIS E. PEARSON, JR. 1952
* GEORGE W. SCOTT 1951
* DONALD F. MCGARY 1950
* EDWARD S. FARWELL 1949
* HAROLD O. SANBORN 1948
* EDWIN L. COLBURN 1947
* DR. MAURICE P. KING 1946
* GEORGE E. TUNER 1945
* HENRY P. CUSHMAN 1945
* WILLIAM P. NEWMAN 1944
* HOMER M. CYR 1943
* CHARLES W. CURTIS 1942
* CLAUDE F. CLEMENT 1941
* JOHN W. DOWNES 1940
* HAVEY E. KNOWLES 1939
* ELMER E. MCFARLAND 1938
* CHARLES W. SHEA 1937
* JOSEPH D. GARLAND 1936
* RAYMOND T. ADAMS 1935
* LYNWOOD B. THOMPSON 1934
* BENJAMIN C. KENT 1933
* GUY A. HERSHEY 1932
* FRANK E. PRINCE 1931
* FREDERIC W. ADAMS 1930
* SAMUEL H. LANCASTER 1929
* CARL C. HAYNES 1928
* CARUS T. SPEAR 1927
* CLARENCE W. REYNOLDS 1926
* EDWARD W. WOODBURY 1925
* GEORGE W. WESCOTT 1924
* JAMES A. DUNNING 1921-1923
*denotes deceased potentates