Jordan, Barbara (Charline) (1936–1996)

US representative. She served in the Texas Senate 1967–72, and in the US House of Representatives 1973–79. A compelling orator, she electrified the 1976 Democratic convention. She became a professor at the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas in Austin.

She was born in Houston, Texas. A Boston University Law School graduate, she practiced law in Houston 1960–67. Her political career was cut short by illness.