Adolphe Jordan

Adolphe Jordan ( born July 11, 1845 in Granges- près- Marnand, † May 27, 1900 in Lausanne, home justified in Granges- près- Marnand ) was a Swiss politician ( FDP).

Life

Jordan attended high school in Moudon and graduated from the Federal Polytechnic in Zurich. According to the Forestry School at Nancy, he obtained his diploma as forest expert in 1866. After that, he was from 1871 to 1879 as a forestry inspector and then from 1879 to 1883 worked as a senior forestry inspector of the canton of Vaud.

His political career began as a local councilor in Moudon. In 1881 he was elected to the National Council, but he was expelled in 1883 from this Council on the basis of separation of powers, because he served from 1883 to 1900 as the Vaud State Council and stood there in front of the Buildings Department. In the years 1884 and 1885 he was a member of the Constitutional Council of Vaud. In 1888 he was elected to the Senate and served 1895/96 in his last year there as Senate President. In 1896 he was again elected to the National Council, and had a seat there until 1900.

Adolphe Jordan was one of the leading figures of the Vaudois Liberalism. In 1881 he founded the Vaud Democratic Club and presided over this also. From 1894 to 1898 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Democratic Party of Switzerland.

In the Swiss army, he was colonel of infantry and 1879-1883 Senior Judge at the military court.