Background
Jordan was born in Tattenbar, eldest son of Samuel Jordan, farmer, and was educated at the Mulnlburtlin National Primary School, as well as at the Portora Royal School in Enniskillen.
Jordan was born in Tattenbar, eldest son of Samuel Jordan, farmer, and was educated at the Mulnlburtlin National Primary School, as well as at the Portora Royal School in Enniskillen.
He was connected with Temperance and kindred movements for many years. In 1902 he became the first nationalist chairman of Fermanagh County Council. The local branch of the UIL in Enniskillen which was largely dominated by working-class members was disaffiliated after it criticised merchants who dominated nationalist politics in the town – notably Jeremiah Jordan and his successor, Patrick Crumley – for decorating shops with Union Jacks and subscribing to a military monument.
From 1865, Jordan supported the Liberal party in Enniskillen municipal and parliamentary elections against the dominant Cole Earl of Enniskillen and Crichton Earl of Erne interests.
In the early 1870s he joined the Home Rule League of Isaac Butt and spoke alongside Butt at an Enniskillen meeting in 1873. He was returned unopposed in 1886.
When the Irish Party split in 1891 over the leadership of Charles Stewart Parnell, Jordan sided with the majority Anti-Parnellite faction - he had been the first Nationalist Member of Parliament to call for Parnell"s resignation, partly because of his close association with the English Methodist spokesman Hugh Price Hughes. At the next election, in July 1895, Jordan narrowly lost the South Meath seat to Parnell"s older brother, John Howard Parnell.
However, he had also stood in South Fermanagh, where he was elected with a comfortable majority. from 1895 to 1910.
That constituency returned Jordan to Westminster in 1900, 1906 and January 1910. By then he was 80 years old, and after suffering a series of strokes he did not contest the December 1910 general election. He died a year later, aged 81.
After the Kilmainham Treaty Jordan definitively committed himself to nationalism by joining the Irish National League.
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He was a Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) from 1885 to 1892, and from 1893 to 1910, taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. A merchant by profession, he became a member of the Fermanagh Urban Council, the Enniskillen Board of Guardians, the Fermanagh Community College and of the Joint Committee of the Asylum for Tyrone and Fermanagh.
He was a member of the Tenant’s Association, the Land League, the Irish National League and the United Irish League (UIL), successively.