Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996

found: Bryant, I. B. Barbara Charline Jordan, c1977 (subj.)t.p. (Barbara Charline Jordan)

found: Biog. dir. of the United States Congress 1774-present, accessed Apr. 16, 2012(Jordan, Barbara Charline, a Representative from Texas; b. Houston, Harris Co., Tex., Feb. 21, 1936; educated in the public schools of Houston, Tex.; graduated, Phillis Wheatley H.S., 1952; B.A., Texas Southern Univ., Houston, Tex., 1956; LL.B., Boston Univ. 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 (Jan. 3, 1973-Jan. 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 Univ. 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 Jan. 17, 1996; interment in Texas State Cemetery)

found: African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:(Jordan, Barbara; Barbara Charline Jordan; lawyer, politician, professor; born 21 February 1936 in Houston, Texas, United States; graduated from Texas Southern University (1956) and from Boston University School of Law; returned to Houston and worked as a lawyer and administrative assistant to a county judge until 1966; senator in Texas since 1883; elected president pro tem of the Texas legislature; in January 1973 elected member of the U.S. House; in 1979 appointed to the Lyndon B. Johnson Chair in National Policy at the Johnson School of Public Affairs, a part of the University of Texas in Austin; died 17 January 1996 in Austin, Texas, United States)