Background
Briggs, Gordon Dobson was born on August 24, 1912 in Pittsfield, Maine, United States. Son of Francis Wayland and Margaret (Goodwin) Briggs.
Briggs, Gordon Dobson was born on August 24, 1912 in Pittsfield, Maine, United States. Son of Francis Wayland and Margaret (Goodwin) Briggs.
Graduate Hebron Academy, 1929. Bachelor of Arts, Bowdoin College, 1933. Bachelor of Laws, Harvard, 1936.
Bar, 1936; assistant counsel Bangor Hydro-Electric Company and subsidiaries and Penobscot Transportation Company, Bangor, Maine, 1936-1940, general counsel, 1940-1942. Assistant counsel Eastern corporation, South Brewer, Maine, 1936-1941. Assistant general counsel, assistant clerk Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Company and subsidiaries, 1946-1950, general counsel, clerk, 1950-1951, vice president, general counsel 1951-1953, executive vice president, since 1953, director, since 1954.
Director Merrill Trust Company Director local Community Chest, 1937-1941, president, 1940.
Member House of Representatives, Maine State Legislature, 1941-1942. Treasurer Good Samaritan Home Association, Bangor, since 1950.
Member House of Representatives, Maine State Legislature, 1941-1942. Treasurer Good Samaritan Home Association, Bangor, since 1950. Served with A.U.S., 1942-1945.
Member Veterans Foreign Wars, Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Mason.; Clubs: Tarratine (president 1946), Penobscot Valley Country (Bangor, Maine).
Married Pauline Stearns, June 30, 1934. Children: Richard Goodwin, Margaret, Robert Stearns, Admitted to Maine.