Barbara Jordan
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American politician
Why Is Barbara Jordan Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Barbara Charline Jordan was an American lawyer, educator, and politician. A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction, the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives, and one of the first two African Americans elected to the U.S. House from the former Confederacy since 1901, alongside Andrew Young of Georgia.
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