# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-jordan-q461657
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:12:40.242Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-jordan-q461657"
name: "Barbara Jordan"
slug: "barbara-jordan-q461657"
description: "Barbara Charline Jordan was an American politician, attorney, and educator. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate since Reconstruction, the first woman descendant of American slavery elected to the U.S. 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."
tagline: "American politician (1936-1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rep._Barbara_Jordan_-_Restoration.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1936-02-21"
deathDate: "1996-01-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           22.93286133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump