Barbara Jordan

Barbara Charline Jordan 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.

21 February 1936

Born on the same birth day (21 February): Alan Rickman • Arline Judge • Charlotte Church • Jack Coleman (actor) • James Wisniewski • Joe Alwyn • Metawin Opas-iamkajorn • Peter Gethin • Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland

Born in the same month (February 1936): Alex Rocco • Anna German • Claude Nobs • Guillermo O'Donnell • Henri Richard • Jack R. Lousma • Jean M. Auel • Sam Myers