Gordon MacInnes

Who is Gordon MacInnes?

Gordon A. MacInnes is a Democratic politician from New Jersey who has served twice in the state Legislature. MacInnes was elected to the state Assembly in 1973 in a heavily Republican Morris County district, as part of the Watergate-driven Democratic landslide of that year. He was defeated in his re-election bid in 1975. In 1993, he won election to the state Senate in a major upset over incumbent Senate Majority Leader John Dorsey, again in a heavily Republican district. He again failed to win re-election in 1997, losing to Republican Anthony Bucco, who continues to hold that Senate seat.

MacInnes also served as Assistant Commissioner in the New Jersey Department of Education from 2002 to 2007. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Governors of Rutgers University. He also is a former executive director of the New Jersey Network.

MacInnes is the president of New Jersey Policy Perspective, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that researches and analyzes economic issues. MacInnes is a fellow at The Century Foundation in New York and previously was a lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

During the administration for President Lyndon Johnson, MacInnes was deputy director of the White House Task Force on the Cities.