Barbara Charline Jordan biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Barbara Charline Jordan

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Barbara Charline Jordan

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Born:

21 Feb 1936

Died:

17 Jan 1996




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Attorney                          
                          
Partner for nearly thirty years Nancy Earl.                          
First African-American elected to the Texas Senate after reconstruction

First Southern black woman ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

AdjunctProfessor teaching ethics at the University of Texas at Austin Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.