- Civil rights leader and close advisor to former President Bill Clinton, Vernon Jordan has died at the age of 85.
- He was a Washington insider and corporate influencer who worked with presidents from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama.
- He worked with both Republican and Democrat Presidents.
- He was the former president of the National Urban League.
- Studied law at Howard University.
- He was the Field Director for the NAACP and served as a director of the Southern Regional Council for the Voter Education Project.
- In a statement Bill Clinton said in part, he never gave up on his friends or his country.
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