Jeff Gordon (politician)

Jeff Gordon is an American physician and politician from the state of Connecticut. A member of the Republican Party, he has been a member of the Connecticut State Senate representing the 35th District since 2023.

Career
Gordon is a hematologist-oncologist. He is a former president of the Connecticut State Medical Society. He formerly was a member of the Town of Woodstock Planning & Zoning Commission.

Gordon was elected as a Republican to the state Senate in November 2022 from Connecticut's 35th State Senate district; his district covers Ashford, Chaplin, Coventry, Eastford, Ellington, Hampton, Stafford, Thompson, Tolland, Union, Vernon, Willington, and Woodstock.

He took office in January 2023. In the state Senate, Gordon opposed proposed legislation in 2023 to phase out conventional gas-powered cars, and to mandate that all new car sales in Connecticut be electric vehicles by 2035. He argued that EV infrastructure was too expensive.