Grace Jordan

Grace Edgington Jordan (April 16, 1892 – September 20, 1985) was an American writer and journalist who wrote primarily about her adopted home state of

United States Senator Leonard B. Jordan

.

Biography

Born Grace Hartley Edgington in Wasco, Oregon in 1892 to a doctor and a schoolteacher, she graduated with an honors degree in English from the University of Oregon.^[1] Following graduation, she worked as a journalist in Eugene and Lewiston, Idaho. In 1923, she became a member of Pi Beta Phi fraternity for Women when she was initiated as a convention Honor Initiate.^[2]

On December 30, 1924, she married

First Lady

of Idaho for four years.

Jordan's first book, Home Below Hells Canyon was published in 1954. A memoir of her time along the Snake River, it has since been translated into several languages and remains her best-known work.

Washington D.C. He was re-elected in 1966, but chose not to run in 1972 and they retired from public service. Grace Jordan's book The Unintentional Senator describes this time in their life.^[3]