POLITICIAN

Barbara Jordan

1936 - 1996

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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, 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. Jordan achieved notoriety for delivering a powerful opening statement at the House Judiciary Committee hearings during the impeachment process against Richard Nixon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barbara Jordan has received more than 1,792,786 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Barbara Jordan is the 17,010th most popular politician (down from 15,657th in 2019), the 11,172nd most popular biography from United States (down from 10,561st in 2019) and the 739th most popular American Politician.

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  • 49.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Barbara Jordan ranks 17,010 out of 19,576. Before her are Patrick Manning, Mark Drakeford, Arthur Barclay, Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet, Ciro Gomes, and Steingrímur J. Sigfússon. After her are Isidore Mankofsky, John Adams Dix, Anton Rop, Yahya Ould Hademine, Seiji Maehara, and Hérard Abraham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Barbara Jordan ranks 540. Before her are Isaac Berger, Tony Nash, Claudio Barrientos, Billy Higgins, Otto Leodolter, and Dick Richards. After her are Charles Dierkop, James Bridges, Dimitar Largov, K Callan, Andrew Davies, and George Eastham. Among people deceased in 1996, Barbara Jordan ranks 329. Before her are Swami Rama, Sverre Sørsdal, Willi Heeks, Otto Licha, Ron Brown, and Konstantin Loktev. After her are Nino Borsari, Jean Muir, Eddie Harris, Dunc Gray, Aldo Montano, and Audrey Meadows.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barbara Jordan ranks 11,172 out of 20,380. Before her are Leo Goodwin (1883), George R. Price (1922), Richard A. Knaak (1961), Frank Ferrer (1966), Dwight Howard (1985), and Carrie Preston (1967). After her are Charles Dierkop (1936), Isidore Mankofsky (1931), Richard Myers (1942), John Adams Dix (1798), Jeff Dunham (1962), and Jack Angel (1930).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Barbara Jordan ranks 739. Before her are Neil Abercrombie (1938), Elliott Abrams (1948), Stephen Hadley (1947), Oliver Wolcott Jr. (1760), Ron Brown (1941), and John Brown Gordon (1832). After her are Isidore Mankofsky (1931), John Adams Dix (1798), Don Young (1933), Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900), Steny Hoyer (1939), and Howell Cobb (1815).

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