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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...
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A graduate of Howard University School of Law, Jordan began his work as a civil rights activist while working as a young lawyer in Atlanta. His firm sued the University of Georgia for its discriminatory admissions policies. Jordan rose to become the state field director for the NAACP and held several other leadership roles before being named execut...
Jordan became close friends with Clinton two decades before he became president, and that friendship continued as Clinton ran for president and entered the White House. Jordan was among the president’s closest confidants and advisors, and he played a notable role in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, including helping the former intern find a job outside...
“Throughout my career and my professional life, I have been able to go to sleep at night confident that whatever negotiations I did that day I have been able to do the right thing. That’s been my guide even when people didn’t understand it.” —from a 1996 interview with the New York Times
Mar 2, 2021 · Updated at 2:35 p.m. ET. Vernon Jordan, the civil rights lawyer who built a career as a power broker in politics and business, has died at age 85. Jordan "passed away peacefully last evening ...
Mar 2, 2021 · Vernon Jordan, a civil rights icon and adviser to former President Bill Clinton, died Monday, according to his family. He was 85. His daughter, Vickee Jordan, said he "passed away peacefully...
Mar 2, 2021 · ATLANTA (AP) — 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...
Mar 2, 2021 · Washington CNN — Vernon Jordan, a civil rights leader and close adviser to former President Bill Clinton, died Monday evening. He was 85. A cause of death was not immediately released. Jordan...
In May 2017, Jordan served as the commencement speaker at the 163rd commencement of Syracuse University. Jordan died at his home in Washington, D.C., on March 1, 2021, at the age of 85, and was buried in Washington, D.C.'s Oak Hill Cemetery. Marriage and family. Jordan married Shirley (née Yarbrough), who died in 1985.
