Barbara Jordan

Barbara Jordan

Full Name: Barbara Charline Jordan
Date of birth: February 21, 1936
Date of death: January 17, 1996

Terms of Service top

Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
S 11 Jan 14, 1969 - Jan 9, 1973 62nd (1)   61st   62nd (1)   Democrat Houston / Harris Senate President Pro Tempore (62nd)   Harris
S 11 Jan 10, 1967 - Jan 14, 1969 60th (2)   Democrat Houston / Harris   Harris

(1) 62nd Legislature - Senate President Pro Tempore, 2nd C.S., elected 3/28/1972; and Ad Interim 2nd C.S., elected 3/30/1972. Senate Journal.
(2) 60th Legislature - Drawing for Terms of Office, 1/11/1967, p. 19. Drew 2-year term. Senate Journal.

Terms of Service top

Senate District 11
Jan 14, 1969 - Jan 9, 1973
Legislatures: 62nd (1)   61st   62nd (1)  
Senate President Pro Tempore (62nd)
(62nd)
(62nd)
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Houston / Harris
Counties in district: Harris
Senate District 11
Jan 10, 1967 - Jan 14, 1969
Legislatures: 60th (2)  
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Houston / Harris
Counties in district: Harris

(1) 62nd Legislature - Senate President Pro Tempore, 2nd C.S., elected 3/28/1972; and Ad Interim 2nd C.S., elected 3/30/1972. Senate Journal.
(2) 60th Legislature - Drawing for Terms of Office, 1/11/1967, p. 19. Drew 2-year term. Senate Journal.

Biographical Information top

Selected newspaper articles

Resolutions and Journal entries

Biographical Sketches

  • Speeches in LRL collection, 923.2764 J761P 1999. Barbara C. Jordan, Selected Speeches, 1999.
  • Biography in LRL collection, 923.2764 J761BR 1977. Barbara Charline Jordan: From the Ghetto to the Capitol, 1977.
  • Biography in LRL collection, 923.2764 J761. Barbara Jordan, 1977.
  • Autobiography in LRL collection, 923.2764 J761B. Barbara Jordan, A Self-Portrait, 1979.
  • Biography in LRL collection, YOUNG TEXANS. Barbara Jordan, Congresswoman, 1990.
  • Biography in LRL collection, 923.2764 J761R 1998. Barbara Jordan: American Hero, 1998.
  • Biography and speeches in LRL collection, 923.2764 J761S. Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder, 2007.
  • Biography in LRL collection, YOUNG TEXANS. Barbara Jordan: The Great Lady from Texas, 1990.
  • JORDAN, Barbara Charline (1936-1996). Representative, TX. Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress.
  • Biographical sketch, pp. 166-167, 199. Black Women in Texas History, 2008.
  • Photo and biographical sketch, Barbara Charline Jordan, pp. 145-151. First black state senator since 1883, first African American woman in Texas legislature, first black woman from southern state and first black Texan in Congress. Capitol Women: Texas Female Legislators, 1923-1999, 2000.
  • Biographical sketch, pp. 65-69. Extraordinary Texas Women, 2008.
  • JORDAN, BARBARA CHARLINE (1936-1996). Handbook of Texas Online.
  • Biographical sketch, legislative record, honors and citations, and civic and community activities, pp. 141-146. Negro Legislators of Texas and Their Descendants, 1970.
  • Oral history interview available in Oral History Collection, University of North Texas.
  • Photos and biographical sketch. Profiles in Power: Twentieth-Century Texans in Washington, 2004.
  • Biographical sketch in LRL collection, 340.092 C366R 2008. Rough Road to Justice: The Journey of Women Lawyers in Texas, 2008.
  • Jordan, Barbara Charline. Texas State Cemetery.
  • Biographical sketch, "Barbara Jordan: The Paradox of Black Female Ambition," 305.409764 T852T 2015. Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives, 2015.
  • Biography in LRL collection, YOUNG TEXANS. What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, 2018.
  • Biographical sketch and photo. Women of the Texas Senate, 2019.
  • Biographical sketch and photo. Women of the Texas Senate, 2017.
  • Biographical sketch and photo, Women of the Texas Senate. Women's Suffrage in Texas: Struggle, the Story: Successes, Notable Firsts: Senators, Women of the Texas Senate, 2019.
  • Biography in LRL collection, YOUNG TEXANS. ¿Qué haces con una voz así?: La historia de la extraordinaria congresista Bárbara Jordan, 2021.

Other Resources

  • Photo and election to Texas Legislature, p. 110. Austin Lawyers: A Legacy of Leadership and Service, 2005.
  • Relatives: Barbara Jordan - great-granddaughter, Edward Patton - great-grandfather. Capitol Women: Texas Female Legislators, 1923-1999, 2000.
  • Press release, Barbara Jordan appointed special counselor to the Governor, 12/5/1990. Governor Ann W. Richards.
  • Papers from a seminar hosted by Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, State Senator Bob Gammage, and State Representative Mickey Leland and held 11/30-12/1/1973 at the Bates College of Law, University of Houston. LRL collection, 362.1 H349 1973. Health Care Problems in Texas, 1973.
  • Photo, mentioned in Minority Civil Rights and the Texas Legislature, 2018.
  • Civil rights involvement and legislative career discussed in Merlene Pitre, "Texas and the Master Civil Rights Narrative: A Case Study of Black Females in Houston," Volume 116, Number 2, October 2012, pp. 125-137. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
  • Barbara Jordan's Democratic Convention keynote address, New York, New York, July 12, 1976, Who then will speak for the common good? Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin.
  • Barbara Jordan's Democratic Convention keynote address, New York, New York, July 13, 1992, Change: from what to what? Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin.
  • Frances Tarlton 'Sissy' Farenthold: A Noble Citizen, April 23-24, 2015, conference program, photo of Sissy Farenthold and Barbara Jordan. Presented by the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, School of Law, The University of Texas at Austin.
  • Remembering Professor Barbara Jordan: An Oral History. Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin.

Photographs

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

Committee Information top

62nd R.S. - 1971
Drug Study, Interim  
Education  
Environment  
Finance  
Intergovernmental Relations  
Interstate Cooperation  
Jurisprudence  
Labor and Management Relations (Chair) 
Legislative, Congressional and Judicial Districts (Vice Chair) 
Nominations  
Personnel Policy  
Prairie View A&M College, Investigation  
Prairie View A&M College, Investigation, Special  
Privileges and Elections  
State Affairs  
State Departments and Institutions  
State Departments and Institutions Subcommittee on Construction of the Bauer House for the Chancellor at the University of Texas at Austin  
Youth Affairs  
61st R.S. - 1969
Education  
Election Law (Vice Chair) 
Finance  
Jurisprudence  
Labor and Management Relations (Chair) 
Legislative, Congressional, and Judicial Districts  
Lunar Landing Commission  
Military and Veterans Affairs  
Penal Servitude and Parole  
Privileges and Elections (Vice Chair) 
Public Health  
State Affairs  
Urban Affairs (Chair) 
Welfare Reform  
Youth Affairs  
60th R.S. - 1967
Education  
Emergency Hospital Treatment  
Interstate Cooperation  
Jurisprudence  
Labor and Management Relations (Vice Chair) 
Nominations  
Privileges and Elections  
Slums and Slum Clearance  
State Affairs  

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