Jordan, David Starr (1851-1931)

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Jane Addams et al. to David Starr Jordan and Clifford G. Roe, January 31, 1913

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Jane Addams to David Starr Jordan, December 27, 1923

Statement Against Expanding the Navy, January 15, 1909 (summary)

Thirty Reasons Why Our Navy Should Not Be Enlarged, January 15, 1909

David Starr Jordan to Jane Addams, November 25, 1912

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David Starr Jordan to University & College Faculties of the United States, July 12, 1915

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Newer Aspects of the Peace Movement, May 19, 1912 (excerpts)

The Progressive Party and Social Legislation, September 18, 1912

Is the Peace Movement a Failure?, August 21, 1914

Is the Peace Movement a Failure?, November 1914

May Wright Sewall to Jane Addams, December 24, 1914

Old Glory: The Flag of Hope for World Peace, 1915

War and Society, March 7, 1915

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Delegation List to Meet President Wilson, August 29, 1916

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Peace Plans, November 27, 1916

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President Wilson's War Aims, January 1918

Outlines of Research Studies on "The Open Door," February 1918

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Liberty Defense Union List, March 7, 1918

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Peace and Bread: President Wilson's Policies, January 28, 1922

Personnes pouvant s'interesser à une section américaine de la Ligue des Droits de l'Homme, July 29, 1923

Suggested Peace Quotations, ca. October 1923

Unity, October 4, 1923

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Birth Date

1851-01-19

Death Date

1931-09-19

Birthplace

Gainesville, NY

Biographical Text

David Starr Jordan was raised on a farm, and, in an unorthodox manner, was educated at a local girls' high school. He then studied botany at Cornell University, becoming a member of its pioneer class, and went on to study at Butler University and the Indiana School of Medicine. Jordan then worked as a natural history professor at numerous Midwestern colleges before becoming a professor at Indiana University Bloomington in 1879. In 1885 he became President of Indiana University; in 1891 he became the first president of the newly-established Leland Stanford Junior University in California. In 1913 he became chancellor of the college and was also elected president of the National Education Association. Starr met Jane Addams in Chicago in 1909, when they were judges for an intercollegiate oratorical contest on the subject of world peace. The meeting began what Starr described as "an enduring friendship." From 1910 to 1914, Jordan was the president of the World Peace Foundation, and in 1915 was the president of the World Peace Conference. In 1925, Jordan was an expert witness in the Scopes Trial and a member of the Bohemian Club and the University Club of San Francisco. From 1892 to 1903 he was the Director of the Sierra Club. He was also a member of the initial board of trustees of the Human Betterment Foundation, a eugenics organization. Jordan married to Susan Bowen in 1875 and they had one child, Edith. Susan Jordan died in 1885 and in 1887 he married Jessie Knight. They had four children, Knight, Eric, and Barbara. David Starr Jordan died in 1931.

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Male

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1907

Bibliography and Links

David Starr Jordan, The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalists, Teacher and minor Prophet of Democracy, 2 vols. (New York: World Book Co., 1922), 2:293.

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Theresa Johnston, "Meet President Jordan," Stanford Magazine, 2010

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“Jordan, David Starr (1851-1931),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed September 13, 2024, http://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/1965.