Person
Barbara Jordan
- Specialty
- Acting
- Birth
- February 21, 1936 · 59 years
- Death
- January 17, 1996
- Origin
- Houston, Texas, USA
Technical Alias
Barbara Charline Jordan
Professional Trajectory
Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American lawyer, educator, and politician. A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Jordan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
