Jim Jordan

Jim Jordan

James Daniel "Jim" Jordan (* 17th February 1964 in Urbana , Champaign County , Ohio ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . Since 2007 he is a member of the House of Representatives of the United States for the fourth  congressional district of the state of Ohio.

biography

Jordan graduated from high school in Urbana in 1982 and received his bachelor's degree in 1986 after studying at the University of Wisconsin-Madison . He followed this up with a Masters at Ohio State University . During his student days he was a successful wrestler . In 1985 he won an NCAA final bout against eventual Olympic champion John Smith . He then worked as a trainer for junior wrestlers at Ohio State University and as a lawyer. In 1995 he moved into the Ohio House of Representatives , where he represented the 85th constituency of Ohio until 2000. He then held the seat for the 12th electoral district in the Ohio Senate from 2001 until his election to the US House of Representatives .

In 2006, Jordan was elected to the US House of Representatives as the successor to outgoing MP Michael Oxley , where he took office on January 3, 2007. Always re-elected, his current mandate runs until 2021. He belongs or was a member of the Legal Committee and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform as well as the United States House Select Committee on Benghazi . He is also or was a member of four sub-committees. He was previously a member of the Budget Committee . Between 2011 and 2013 he was chairman of the Republican Study Committee and has been founding chairman of the right-wing conservative Freedom Caucus since February 10, 2015 . As such, he exerted great influence on politics in the House of Representatives, as the Republicans relied on this group for their majority.

In early July 2018, three former Ohio State University wrestlers made public allegations that Jordan knew about sexual abuse by the then university doctor or ignored the open secret during his time as assistant coach; Jordan said he had no knowledge of this and would have intervened in such a case. In particular, members of the Freedom Caucus expressed their support for Jordan. In 2020, the former university wrestling team captain renewed allegations against Jordan at a hearing at the Ohio Statehouse. He had begged him to influence his brother in order to take back the allegations of sexual abuse by the university doctor.

On July 26, 2018, Jordan announced that he would be running to succeed Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House of Representatives . Ryan announced in April that he would retire from politics after the House of Representatives election in November 2018 ; he declared that he would not support Jordan, but rather Kevin McCarthy . Jordan named the abolition of Obamacare , the building of a border wall with Mexico and a reform of the immigration system as his future priorities . After losing the majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives in the 2018 election, Jordan ran against McCarthy for the position of minority leader (that is, the parliamentary group chairman) and clearly lost.

Just before the impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump began , Republicans Jordan joined the Intelligence Committee to allow him to question the witnesses. When the hearings were over, he left the committee; his seat went to Rick Crawford , from whom he had also taken it over. During the hearings, Jordan stood out for his aggressive interrogation style and ardent defense of Trump. The chairman of the committee, Adam Schiff, admonished him several times. Jordan described the investigation as a show trial. After the House of Representatives initiated the impeachment process, Jordan became a member of the President's defense team.

The Evangelical lives in Champaign County with his wife, Polly, and four children .

Web links

• Web presence at the Congress (English)
• Re-election 2016 at Ballotpedia
• Jim Jordan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 55th NCAA Wrestling Tournament 3/14/1985 to 3/16/1985 at Oklahoma City. In: Wrestlingstats.com (PDF; 123 kB).
2. ↑ Rachael Bade, John Bresnahan: 'I would have done something': Jordan rebuts claims he knew of abuse. In: Politico , July 3, 2018.
3. ↑ Sonia Moghe, Ex-wrestler testifies Jim Jordan asked him not to back brother's accounts of sexual abuse by OSU doctor , CNN, February 14, 2020
4. ↑ Emily Birnbaum: Jordan announces bid for speakers. In: The Hill , July 26, 2018.
5. ^ Zachary Basu: Jim Jordan challenges Kevin McCarthy for House GOP leader. In: Axios.com , November 7, 2018.
6. ^ Alan Cassidy: Jim Jordan. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Süddeutsche Zeitung Digitale Medien GmbH, November 17, 2019, accessed on January 31, 2020 . 
7. ↑ John Wagner, Colby Itkowitz, Felicia Sonmez: Senate rejects Democratic effort to subpoena acting White House chief of staff Mulvaney for testimony in Trump's impeachment trial. In: The Washington Post. WP Company LLC, January 22, 2020, accessed January 31, 2020 .