Vernon C. Jordan 1921 – 2009 Vern Jordan quietly slipped away on April 15th after a long battle with C.O.P.D. He is greatly missed by a host of family and friends and will not soon be forgotten by ...

Vernon Jordan, a civil rights leader and close adviser to former President Bill Clinton, died Monday evening, multiple sources close to the family tell CNN. He was 85. A cause of death was not ...

Vernon Jordan attends the 40th Anniversary Gala for “A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste” Campaign at The New York Marriott Marquis on March 3, 2011 in New York City. *Vernon Jordan, the longtime ...

Vernon Jordan, the civil rights leader and former National Urban League president who was nearly slain during a May 1980 shooting in Fort Wayne, has died at age 85. Jordan died Monday, according to a ...

Vernon “Bogie” Jordan was born in Alton, Illinois in 1930, the only son of Howard and Vertalee Jordan. At the age of 16, his family moved to the tiny town of Peoria, Arizona, where he graduated with a ...