Born

Houston, Texas, USA

Biography

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.