Vernon Jordan then continued to work for multiple civil rights organizations until the late 1980s.
24 Facts About Vernon Jordan
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Vernon Jordan was a cousin of James Shaw, a musician who was professionally billed as The Mighty Hannibal.
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Vernon Jordan grew up with his family in the racially segregated Southern United States.
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Vernon Jordan was an honors graduate of David T Howard High School.
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Vernon Jordan graduated from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, in 1957.
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Vernon Jordan earned a Juris Doctor at Howard University School of Law in 1960.
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Vernon Jordan was a member of the Omega Psi Phi and Sigma Pi Phi fraternities.
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Vernon Jordan personally escorted Hunter past a group of angry white protesters to the university admissions office.
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In 1970, Vernon Jordan became executive director of the United Negro College Fund.
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Vernon Jordan was president of the National Urban League from 1971 to 1981.
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On May 29,1980, Vernon Jordan was shot and seriously wounded outside the Marriott Inn in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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Vernon Jordan was accompanied by Martha Coleman at the time.
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For Mr Clinton, Mr Vernon Jordan's roles have been manifold: Golfing companion.
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In 1998 Vernon Jordan helped Monica Lewinsky, a former White House intern, find a job after she left the White House, and recommended an attorney.
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Vernon Jordan's role was considered controversial given the scandal that the Clinton administration had suffered because of the president's involvement with the intern, and Jordan testified several times before the grand jury convened by independent counsel Kenneth Starr.
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Vernon Jordan asked the government to pay him $302,719, but he was paid only $1,215.
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In 1998, Vernon Jordan was interviewed by CBS news television program 60 Minutes.
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Vernon Jordan was a member of the board of directors of Revlon, Sara Lee, Corning, Xerox, and RJR Nabisco during the 1989 leveraged buyout fight between RJR Nabisco CEO F Ross Johnson and Henry R Kravis and his company KKR.
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In 2006, Vernon Jordan served as a member of the Iraq Study Group, which was formed to make recommendations on US policy in Iraq.
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In May 2017, Vernon Jordan served as the commencement speaker at the 163rd commencement of Syracuse University.
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Vernon Jordan died at his home in Washington, DC on March 1,2021, at the age of 85, and was buried in Washington DC's Oak Hill Cemetery.
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In 1986 he remarried, to Ann Dibble Vernon Jordan and adopted her four children - Antoinette "Toni", Mercer, Janice and Jacqueline.
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Vernon Jordan has nine grandchildren, seven from his second wife's children, Janice, Mercer, and Toni.
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Vernon Jordan served as the narrator for American composer Joseph Schwantner's New Morning for the World: "Daybreak of Freedom," a collection of quotations from various speeches by Martin Luther King Jr.