High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nathan Green Gordon (September 4, 1916 – September 8, 2008) was an American lawyer, politician, and decorated naval aviator. A Democrat, he served as the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas for ten terms, from 1947 to 1967. As a United States Navy officer in World War II, he received the U.S. military`s highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for rescuing the crews of several downed airplanes.