Barbara Jordan

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 state 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. Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President William J. Clinton, 1994. Died on January 17, 1996, in Austin, Tex. Interment in Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.