Joseph Louis Jordan, (born November 19, 1958) is a

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politician. Jordan was a member of the

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in the

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, representing the riding of Leeds—Grenville from 1997 to 2004. Jordan is a former businessman and university lecturer. He was parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister, and parliamentary secretary to the president of the Treasury Board with special emphasis on regulatory reform. He lost his seat in the 2004 election to

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candidate

Gord Brown Gordon Keith Brown (August 31, 1960 – May 2, 2018) was a Canadian politician who represented the Ontario riding of Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes in the House of Commons of Canada as a member of the Conservative Party ...

. He was the son of his predecessor,

Jim Jordan James Daniel Jordan (born February 17, 1964) is an American politician currently serving in his ninth term in the U.S. House of Representatives as the representative for since 2007. A member of the Republican Party, he is a two-tim ...

, and was the first federal politician in Canadian history to directly succeed his father as elected representative for the same constituency.

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* 1958 births Living people Liberal Party of Canada MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada People from Pembroke, Ontario 21st-century Canadian politicians {{Liberal-Ontario-MP-stub