Barbara Jordan: The First African-American Woman State Senator

Jordan campaigned for the Texas House of Representatives in 1962 and 1964. 1 Her persistence won her a poop in the Texas Senate in 1966, becoming the commencement African American farming senator since 1883 and the first sick woman to help in that body. 1 Re-elected to a wax term in the Texas Senate in 1968, she served until 1972. She was the first African-American female to serve as president pro tem. of the state senate and served one day, June 10, 1972, as playing governor of Texas.In 1972, she was elected to the United States House of Representatives, becoming the first black woman from a Southern state to serve in the House. She true extensive support from former President Lyndon Johnson, who helped her secure a home on the House Judiciary Committee. In 1974, she made an influential, televised delivery originally the House Judiciary Committee supporting the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.Jordan was mentioned as a possible running mate to Jimmy Carter in 1976,1 and that year she became the first African-American woman to deliver the keynote address at the antiauthoritarian National Convention. 1 Her speech in New York that summer was ranked fifth in Top 100 American Speeches of the 20th century mention and was considered by many historians to have been the best convention keynote speech in modern history. Despite not being a outlook Jordan received one delegate vote (0. 03%) for president at the convention.Jordan retired from governing in 1979 and became an adjunct professor teaching ethics at the University of Texas at Austin Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. She again was a keynote vocaliser at the Democratic National Convention in 1992. In 1995, Jordan chaired a Congressional commission that advocated increased restriction of immigration, called for all U. S. residents to carry a national identity card and increased penalties on employers that violated U. S. immigration regulations. 23 Then-President Clinton endorsed t he Jordan Commissions proposals. 4 While she was Chair of the U. S. Commission on Immigration Reform she argued that it is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic fiat to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest. Her stance on immigration is cited by opponents of current US immigration policy who cite her willingness to punish employers who violate US immigration regulations, to tighten border security, and to oppose oblivion or any other pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants5 and to broaden the one thousand for the deportation of legal immigrants. 6