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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TexasBarbara Charline JORDAN
(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
“Barbara Charline Jordan” in Black Americans in
Congress, 1870-2007. Prepared under the direction of the
Committee on House Administration by the Office of History &
Preservation, U. S. House of Representatives. Washington:
Government Printing Office, 2008; Jordan, Barbara, and Shelby
Hearon. Barbara Jordan: A Self Portrait. Garden City, N.Y.:
Doubleday, 1979.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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