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Gordon R. Parker

American businessman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ5585703 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gordon R. Parker is a business executive notable for leading the Gold Fields unit of Toronto, Canada based Iamgold. He was chairman of Newmont which was a firm involved with exploring, acquiring, and managing gold metals. Parker is a director at corporations including Caterpillar; Gold Fields and Phelps Dodge Corporation. Parker has been a director of Caterpillar since 1995. In 1988, when Parker was chairman and chief executive officer of Newmont Corporation, he was 52 years old.

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“Gordon R. Parker” enters the record as american businessman. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gordon, Parker and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 1988—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gordon, Parker and American.
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“Gordon R. Parker” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Gordon, Parker and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5585703. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1995 and 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gordon R. Parker” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.