[DOC] [TLE] Barbara Jordan - Wikipedia [PAR] Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936  January 17, 1996) was a lawyer, 
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Question: In 1966 she became the first black woman elected to the Texas Senate
Answer: Barbara Jordan