David Lee Jordan (born April 3, 1934) is an American politician who is currently a Democratic member of the

Mississippi State Senate The Mississippi Senate is the upper house of the Mississippi Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Mississippi. The Senate, along with the lower Mississippi House of Representatives, convenes at the Mississippi State Capitol ...

, representing the 24th District since 1993. Jordan is the son of a

sharecropper Sharecropping is a legal arrangement with regard to agricultural land in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land. Sharecropping has a long history and there are a wide range ...

who participated in the

Civil Rights Movement The civil rights movement was a nonviolent social and political movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized institutional Racial segregation in the United States, racial segregation, Racial discrimination ...

, and worked for 33 years as a schoolteacher in Mississippi public schools.

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Mississippi State Senate profile of David Jordan

Project Vote Smart profile of Jordan
*''Follow the Money'' - David Lee Jordan
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campaign contributions 1934 births African-American state legislators in Mississippi Living people People from Leflore County, Mississippi Democratic Party Mississippi state senators Mississippi Valley State University alumni University of Wyoming alumni 21st-century American politicians 21st-century African-American politicians 20th-century African-American people Schoolteachers from Mississippi {{Mississippi-politician-stub