Barbara Jordan

Work : None | New Career 11 November 1966 (Texas State Senate) | Work : None | Gain social status 1972 (Three terms as Congresswoman) | Social : None | Great Publicity 5 January 1976 (One of 12 Women of the Year) | Work : None | Retired 10 December 1977 (Retired from politics) | : None | Death by Disease 17 January 1996 (Pneumonia and leukemia, age 59) | Traits : Body | Race (Black) | Traits : Body | Voice/Speech (Voice and diction distinctive) | Traits : Personality | Ambitious | Traits : Personality | Hard worker | Diagnoses : Major Diseases | Cancer (Leukemia, terminal) | Diagnoses : Major Diseases | Multiple Sclerosis | Diagnoses : Major Diseases | Pneumonia (Terminal) | Family : Childhood | Disadvantaged (Poverty) | Family : Childhood | Order of birth (Third of three) | Family : Relationship | Married late/never (Never) | Family : Parenting | Kids none | Lifestyle : Work | Loves job | Lifestyle : Financial | Gain - Financial success in field | Vocation : Education | Teacher (Professor at Univ. of Texas) | Vocation : Law | Attorney | Vocation : Politics | Public office (Senate and Congress) | Notable : None | For Leadership | Notable : Famous | Top 5% of Profession | Notable : Book Collection | Profiles Of Women