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About Barbara Jordan
Barbara Charline Jordan was an American politician, attorney, and educator. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate since Reconstruction, the first woman descendant of American slavery elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and one of the first two African Americans elected to the U.S. House from the former Confederacy since 1901, alongside Andrew Young of Georgia.
Everything about Barbara Jordan →- Occupation
- politician, university teacher, writer, lawyer
- Position held
- United States representative, member of the State Senate of Texas, United States representative, United States representative
- Citizenship
- United States, United Kingdom
- Born
- February 21, 1936
- Died
- January 17, 1996