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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.
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