Vernon Jordan

Social : None | Begin a program of study 1953 (First black student Univ. of DePauw) | Social : None | End a program of study 1957 (Graduated with a B.A.) | Relationship : None | Marriage 1959 (First marriage Shirley Yarbrough) | Social : None | End a program of study 1960 (Received law degree from Howard Univ.) | Work : None | New Job 1960 (Law clerk for law firm) | Family : None | Change in family responsibilities 1960 (Daughter Vickee born) | Social : None | Great Publicity 1961 (Escorted black student on to white campus, Univ. of Atlanta) | Work : None | New Job 1964 (Law partnership) | Work : None | New Job 1970 (Exec. Dir. of United Negro Fund) | Work : None | New Job 1972 (Head of the Urban League, nine years) | Work : None | New Job January 1972 (Dir. of Ntnl. Urban League) | Crime : None | 00 AM in Ft. Wayne, IN (Critically shot by sniper, long recovery) | : None | Death of Mate 1985 (Shirley died of M.S.) | Relationship : None | Marriage 1986 (Second marriage Ann Dibble Cook) | Financial : None | Buy/Sell Property 1986 (Bought house in Georgetown) | Work : None | New Job 1993 (Sitting on 11 corporate boards) | Work : None | New Job January 1993 (Pres. transition team) | Social : None | Great Publicity February 1999 (His deposition was used for impeachment proceeding, Pres. Clinton) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 2001 (Vernon Can Read) | Traits : Personality | Ambitious | Family : Childhood | Order of birth (Second of three boys) | Family : Relationship | Marriage more than 15 Yrs (First marriage 26 years) | Family : Relationship | Number of Marriages (Two) | Family : Relationship | Widowed (First wife died of M.S.) | Family : Parenting | Kids 1-3 (One daughter) | Lifestyle : Financial | Gain - Financial success in field | Lifestyle : Social Life | Sports (Enjoys golf and tennis) | Passions : Criminal Victim | Assault/ Battery victim (Critically injured by sniper) | Vocation : Business | Top executive (Sets on 11 boards) | Vocation : Law | Attorney | Vocation : Politics | Activist/ political (Civil-rights activist) | Vocation : Politics | Government employee (Pres. Clinton's staff, noted figure) | Vocation : Writers | Autobiographer (Autobiog written with Annette Gordon-Reed) | Notable : None | For Meritorious achievement (Self-made man) | Notable : Famous | Top 5% of Profession