1. James Daniel Jordan was born on February 17,1964 and is an American politician who has served in the US House of Representatives as the representative for since 2007.
69 Facts About Jim Jordan
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Jim Jordan is a two-time NCAA national champion wrestler and a former college wrestling coach.
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In Congress, Jim Jordan helped start the right-wing populist House Freedom Caucus, serving as its first chair from 2015 to 2017, and as its vice chair since 2017.
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Jim Jordan was a prominent critic of Speaker of the House John Boehner, who resigned under Freedom Caucus pressure in 2015.
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Jim Jordan was the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee from 2019 to 2020, when he left to become the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, of which he became chair in 2023.
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Jim Jordan is the dean of Ohio's GOP delegation to the House of Representatives, since January 2023 after the loss of fellow Republican Steve Chabot.
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Jim Jordan refused to cooperate with the US House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, which subpoenaed him on May 12,2022.
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Jim Jordan, who opposed Kevin McCarthy during his failed bid to succeed Boehner as speaker in 2015, later became one of McCarthy's closest allies; Jim Jordan supported McCarthy during the January 2023 Speaker of the House election.
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Jim Jordan became the second nominee of the House Republican Conference after Steve Scalise withdrew, but failed to win the speakership in three rounds of voting and had his nomination revoked.
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Jim Jordan was born in Troy, Ohio, the son of Shirley and John Jim Jordan, and raised in Champaign County, Ohio.
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Jim Jordan attended and wrestled for Graham High School, graduating in 1982.
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Jim Jordan won the 1985 and 1986 NCAA championship matches in the 134-pound weight class, defeating future multi time World and Olympic champion John Smith in the former.
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Jim Jordan graduated from Wisconsin in 1986 with a bachelor's degree in economics.
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Jim Jordan later earned a master's degree in education from Ohio State University and received a Juris Doctor degree from the Capital University Law School in 2001.
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Jim Jordan was an assistant coach with Ohio State University's wrestling program from 1987 to 1995.
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Several involved persons have stated that Jim Jordan surely knew of Strauss's criminal misconduct but did not report it.
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Jim Jordan has denied any wrongdoing and has described his accusers as "pawns in a political plot".
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Jim Jordan was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in November 1994 and represented the 85th Ohio House district for three terms.
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Jim Jordan represents Ohio's 4th congressional district, a primarily urban district, which includes Lima, Mansfield, Marysville, and Marion, and parts of Columbus.
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Jim Jordan first ran for Congress in 2006, where he won the Republican primary for the 4th district after 26-year incumbent Mike Oxley announced his retirement.
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Jim Jordan was reelected in 2012,2014,2016,2018,2020,2022, and 2024.
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Jim Jordan chaired the Republican Study Committee during the 112th Congress, while turning down a position on the Appropriations Committee.
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Jim Jordan received a vote for Speaker of the United States House of Representatives in the 113th Congress from a fellow right-wing conservative, Tea Party Caucus chairman Tim Huelskamp.
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Jim Jordan received two votes for Speaker during the 114th Congress.
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Former Ohio state representative Capri Cafaro said that Jim Jordan "is someone who has built a reputation as an attack dog, someone who is media savvy, someone who is a stalwart supporter of the president and who has the skill necessary to take the lead for the GOP".
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In 2023, Jim Jordan returned to consideration for the speakership after McCarthy failed to win it after three rounds of voting.
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Jim Jordan was the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee from January 2019 to June 2020, with a brief interlude in March 2020.
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Jim Jordan's district has been redrawn over time to minimize urban area and increase rural area; it now stretches from Lake Erie nearly to Dayton.
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Jim Jordan's fellow Republicans said the letter was a "big win for free speech".
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In March 2017, Jim Jordan criticized the newly introduced American Health Care Act, the Republican replacement bill for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, calling it an unacceptable form of "Obamacare Lite".
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Jim Jordan received 19 votes, enough to deny McCarthy the speakership in the second round.
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Jim Jordan was nominated again on the third ballot by Chip Roy.
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Jim Jordan won 20 votes in the third ballot, with Byron Donalds switching from McCarthy to Jordan.
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Jim Jordan received four votes, enough to necessitate a 13th ballot when combined with the three for Kevin Hern.
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Jim Jordan was not nominated on the 13th or 14th ballot, but received six and two votes on each, respectively.
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However, after Scalise withdrew a day later after failing to consolidate the necessary votes, Jim Jordan launched a second bid for the speakership and defeated Austin Scott for the Republican nomination.
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Jim Jordan subsequently failed to win the speakership in the first two rounds of the House vote, garnering only 200 of the 217 votes needed to win in the first vote and only 199 votes in the second.
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Jim Jordan has earned a perfect score from the American Conservative Union.
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Jim Jordan has voted consistently for anti-abortion legislation and was endorsed by Ohio Right to Life in 2012.
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Jim Jordan was a leading critic of President Barack Obama's Home Affordable Modification Program program, advocating for its shutdown.
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Jim Jordan has supported the continued production and upgrades of M1 Abrams tanks in his district.
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Jim Jordan has been a stalwart supporter and close ally of Trump.
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In December 2017, Jim Jordan sought to discredit the FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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Jim Jordan questioned Mueller's impartiality, and called on Deputy Attorney General Rod J Rosenstein to use his authority to disband Mueller's investigation or create a second special counsel to simultaneously investigate Mueller himself.
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In July 2018, Jim Jordan led efforts to impeach Rosenstein as a way to shut down Mueller's investigation.
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CNN host Jake Tapper claimed that the statements by the CNN reporters in the video shown by Jim Jordan had been taken out of context.
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In December 2020, Jordan was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden defeated Trump.
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On January 12,2021, Jim Jordan claimed: "I've never said that this election was stolen".
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Jim Jordan was one of the 139 representatives who voted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Congress on January 7,2021, the day after the storming of the Capitol.
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At a later virtual committee meeting, Jim Jordan said the storming of the Capitol "was as wrong as wrong can be".
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Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified before the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack that Jim Jordan had talked to the White House about presidential pardons for Republican members of Congress who participated in attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election.
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Jim Jordan has critiqued "Big Tech" companies, though he opposes proposals to break up these companies through antitrust enforcement.
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In 2023, Jim Jordan refused to make Ken Buck the chairman of the Subcommittee on Antitrust, despite Buck being the most senior Republican on the committee and a proponent of antitrust enforcement.
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Jim Jordan opposes the Affordable Care Act, calling for it to be repealed.
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Since coming into office, Jim Jordan has voted in opposition to efforts to liberalize federal marijuana policy.
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In 2017, Jim Jordan argued that "the most beneficial things can be done at a local level" in responding to the opioid epidemic.
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In July 2008, Jim Jordan was the first member of Congress to sign the "No Climate Tax" pledge drafted by the conservative political advocacy group Americans for Prosperity.
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In Congress, Jim Jordan voted to open the Outer Continental Shelf to oil drilling, prevent the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases, and bar greenhouse gases from Clean Air Act rules.
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Jim Jordan voted against enforcing limits on carbon dioxide global warming pollution, tax credits for renewable electricity, tax incentives for renewable energy and energy conservation, and curtailing subsidies for oil and gas company exploration.
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Jim Jordan opposes abortion, and supports banning federal funding to Planned Parenthood.
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Jim Jordan was among 60 Republicans to oppose condemning Trump's action of withdrawing forces from Syria.
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In June 2021, Jim Jordan was one of 49 House Republicans to vote to repeal the AUMF against Iraq.
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Since the onset of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Jim Jordan has reportedly voted in opposition to almost all bills to provide military assistance to Ukraine.
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Jim Jordan endorsed providing aid to Israel in the wake of the Gaza war.
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In 2015, Jim Jordan cosponsored a resolution to amend the US constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
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Jim Jordan supported protests in April 2020 that opposed government lockdowns intended to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
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Jim Jordan criticized Anthony Fauci during congressional hearings over his pandemic policy recommendations, and in 2021 called on Fauci to resign.
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Jim Jordan defended a tweet by Kennedy which implied that Hank Aaron, who died in 2021 of natural causes, had passed away due to Aaron being administered the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Polly and Jim Jordan started dating when he was 13 and she was 14.