Jewel Jordan

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Jewel Jordan , née Jewel M. Winburne , (born March 18, 1891 in Mangum , Texas , † June 7, 1975 in York , South Carolina ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ).

Career

Jewel M. Winburne, daughter of Laura Belle McFarlane (1867-1927) and George Washington Winburne junior (1862-1934), was born in 1891 in the parish of Mangum in old Greer County , which was then still part of Texas and in 1896 part of Oklahoma -Territory became. She attended local schools in the Oklahoma Territory and then a vocational college in Missouri before moving to Arizona in 1921 .

She subsequently married Joseph Lon Jordan (1893-1944), who was born in the part of Indian territory that is now Choctaw County . Jordan came to Arizona in 1912 with the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Show. He then worked there as a cowboy for the well-known Hashknife Ranch before buying his own ranch near Tempe ( Maricopa County ). He served as the Maricopa County Deputy Sheriff in the 1930s before defeating Acting Maricopa County's Sheriff Roy Merrill in the elections, whose tenure was marked by bribery and corruption. Jordan held the post from 1939 until his death in 1944. He died of complications from leukemia . After her husband's death, Jewel was appointed Maricopa County Sheriff for the remainder of her husband's term by the Maricopa County Council. She was the first woman to hold this post.

She later headed the Crime Prevention Bureau and was elected treasurer of Maricopa County for a term . In the 1950 election, she successfully ran for the post of State Auditor of Arizona. She was subsequently re-elected eight times in a row. Jewel held the post for 18 years.

Jewel Jordan died in 1975 in a retirement home in York, South Carolina.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Maricopa County Sheriff's Office History and Pictorial , Turner Publishing Company, 2005, ISBN 978-1-5965-2055-4 , p. 12
  2. ↑ Joseph Lon Jordan in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved May 8, 2016.
  3. ↑ Eppinga, Jane: Arizona Sheriffs: Badges and Bad Men , The Republic, June 19, 2015
  4. ^ Jewel Winburne Jordan in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved May 8, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b Sheriff Jewel Jordan , Fraternal Order of Police Maricopa Lodge 5
  6. ^ Reingold, Beth: Representing Women: Sex, Gender, and Legislative Behavior in Arizona and California , University of North Carolina Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-8078-6105-9 , p. 79
  7. ^ Joy, Betty Evangeline Hammer: Angela Hutchinson Hammer: Arizona's Pioneer Newspaperwoman , University of Arizona Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8165-2357-3 , p. 149
  8. ^ Jewel Jordan, State Auditor , Sept. 24, 1968
personal data
SURNAME Jordan, Jewel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winburne, Jewel M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Mangum , Texas
DATE OF DEATH June 7th 1975
Place of death York , South Carolina