Background
Jordan, Vernon Eulion was born on August 15, 1935 in Atlanta. Son of Vernon Eulion and Mary (Griggs) Jordan.
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The long and storied career of Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. one of the nation’s finest speakers, has carried him from work on the civil rights front lines in the South to the National Urban League to positions of influence at the highest level of business and politics. A friend and confidant to presidents, Vernon Jordan has never forgotten the men and women, from Wiley Branton to Martin Luther King, from Fannie Lou Hamer to Whitney Young to Primus King, whose oratorical skill in service to social justice deeply influenced him. Their examples, and voices, mixed with Vernon’s own make this book both a history and an embodiment of black speech at its finest, full of emotion, controlled force, righteous indignation, love of country, and awe in front of the challenges ahead.
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Jordan, Vernon Eulion was born on August 15, 1935 in Atlanta. Son of Vernon Eulion and Mary (Griggs) Jordan.
Bachelor, DePauw University, 1957; Juris Doctor, Howard U., 1960; honorary degrees, DePauw University, Howard U., Boston College, Brandeis U., CUNY, University of Illinois Chicago Duke University, University Massachusetts, New York University, Princeton University honorary degrees, Tulane University, Rutgers University, Tuskegee Institute, Yale University, Notre Dame U., Harvard University, plus 50 other institutions higher education.
Practice law, Atlanta, 1960-1961;
practice law, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, 1964-1965;
Georgia field director, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1961-1963;
director, Voter Education Project Southern Regional Council, 1964-1968;
attorney, Office of Economic Opportunity, Atlanta, 1969;
executive director, United Negro College Fund, New York City, 1970-1971;
president, National Urban League, 1972-1981;
senior partner firm, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, Washington. Director American Express Company, Bankers Trust Company, Bankers Trust New York Corporation, Callaway Golf Company, Chancellor Media Corporation, Dow Jones & Company, Union Carbide Corporation, J.C. Penney Company, Inc., Xerox Corporation, Revlon, Inc., Ryder System, Inc., Sara Lee Corp. Frequent guest on major national television programs including Meet The Press, Face the Nation.
Chairman Clinton Presidential Transition Board. Appointed to President's advising committee Points of Light Initiative Foundation, 1989.
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Member National Advisory Commision on Selective Superior vena cava syndrome, 1966-1967, American Revolution Bi-Centennial Commission, since 1972, Presidential Clemency Board, 1974. Advisory county Social Security, 1974. Trustee Ford Foundation, Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, Urban Institute (life), Howard U.
Member steering committee Bilderberg Meetings. Member Council on Foreign Rels. Advisory trustee DePauw University, board directors National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Ednl.
Fund; honorary member Ralph Bunche Institute on the United Nations. Member American Bar Association, District of Columbia Bar Association, National Bar Association, National Conference Black Lawyers, American Law Institute, University Club, Board Room, Council on Foreign Relations, Century Association.
Married Shirley M. Yarbrough, December 13, 1958 (deceased December 29, 1985). 1 child, Vickee; married Ann Dibble Cook, November 22, 1986.