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  1. Mar 2, 2021 · Vernon E. Jordan Jr., the civil rights leader and Washington power broker whose private counsel was sought in the highest echelons of government and the corporate world, died on Monday at his home...

  2. Mar 2, 2021 · Jordan's first wife, Shirley Yarbrough, died in December 1985. He is survived by his daughter and his second wife, Ann Jordan.

  3. Dec 30, 1985 · Shirley Yarbrough Jordan, the wife of Vernon E. Jordan Jr., the former president of the National Urban League, died yesterday after a short illness at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.

  4. Mar 2, 2021 · Mr. Jordans first wife, the former Shirley Yarbrough, died of multiple sclerosis in 1985, after 26 years of marriage. The next year, he married Ann Dibble Cook, a onetime professor of social...

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  5. Mar 2, 2021 · ATLANTA — Vernon Jordan, who rose from humble beginnings in the segregated South to become a champion of civil rights before reinventing himself as a Washington insider and corporate influencer, has died, according to a statement from his daughter. He was 85.

  6. Mar 2, 2021 · ATLANTA — A political powerhouse and civil rights activist, Georgia-born Vernon Jordan has passed away at the age of 85. Jordan rose from humble beginnings in the segregated South to become a...

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  8. Jul 23, 2021 · Shirley Yarbrough Jordan, 48, the wife of former National Urban League President Vernon Jordan Jr., died Sunday at a Manhattan hospital after a short illness.

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