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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TexasJORDAN, Barbara Charline
(1936—1996)
JORDAN, Barbara Charline, a Representative from Texas; born in Houston, Harris County, Tex., February 21, 1936; educated in the public schools of Houston, Tex.; graduated, Phillis Wheatley High School, 1952; B.A., Texas Southern University, Houston, Tex., 1956; LL.B., Boston University School of Law, Boston Mass., 1959; admitted to the Massachusetts and Texas bars in 1959 and commenced practice in Houston, Tex., 1960; elected to the Texas senate, 1967; reelected and served until 1972; administrative assistant to county judge, Harris County, Tex., 1966; delegate to Texas State Democratic conventions, 1967, 1969; delegate to Democratic National Convention, 1968; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-third, Ninety-fourth and Ninety-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1979); was not a candidate for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas in Austin, professor, 1979-1982, and Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chairman in National Policy, 1982-1986; chair, Commission on Immigration Reform; was a resident of Austin, Tex., until her death there on January 17, 1996; interment in Texas State Cemetery.
Bibliography
Jordan, Barbara, and Shelby Hearon. Barbara Jordan: A Self Portrait
. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1979.
Aghahowa, Brenda Eatman. “Grace Under Fire: The Rhetoric of Watergate and Patriotism, Barbara Jordan Style (Texas).” Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois at Chicago, 2004.
”Barbara Charline Jordan” in Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1989
. Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991.
“Barbara Charline Jordan” in Women in Congress, 1917-1990.
Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991.
Bryant, Ira Babington. Barbara Charline Jordan: From the Ghetto to the Capital.
Houston: D. Armstrong, 1977.
Canas, Kathryn Anne. “Barbara Jordan, Shirley Chisholm, and Lani Guinier: Crafting Identification Through the Rhetorical Interbraiding of Value.” Ph.D. diss., The University of Utah, 2002.
Fenno, Richard F. Going Home: Black Representatives and Their Constituents
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Green, Robert L. Barbara Jordan: Daring Black Leader.
Milwaukee: Franklin, 1974.
Haskins, James. Barbara Jordan.
New York: Dial Press, 1977.
Holmes, Barbara Ann. “Barbara Jordan’s Speeches, 1974-1995: Ethics, Public Religion and Jurisprudence.” Ph.D. diss., Vanderbilt University, 1998.
Horwitz, Linda Diane. “Transforming Appearance into Rhetorical Argument: Rhetorical Criticism of Public Speeches of Barbara Jordan, Lucy Parsons, and Angela Y. Davis.” Ph.D. diss., Northwestern University, 1998.
Jacobs, Linda. Barbara Jordan: Keeping Faith.
St. Paul: EMC Corp., 1978.
Jordan, Barbara, and Shelby Hearon. Barbara Jordan: A Self-Portrait.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979.
Kelin, Norman, and Sabra-Anne Kelin. Barbara Jordan.
Los Angeles: Melrose Square Publishing Company, 1993.
Kirk, Rita G. “Barbara Jordan: The Rise of a Black Woman Politician.” M.A. thesis, University of Arkansas, 1978.
Rogers, Mary Beth. Barbara Jordan: American Hero.
New York: Bantam Books, 1998.
Thompson, Wayne N. “Barbara Jordan’s Keynote Address: The Juxtaposition of Contradictory Values.” Southern Speech Communication Journal
44 (Spring 1979): 223-32.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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