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David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was a leading eugenicist
Eugenics

Eugenics is a scientific field involving the controlled breeding of humans in order to achieve desirable traits in future generations. Eugenics was at its height in first half of the 20th century and was largely abandoned with the end of World War II....
, ichthyologist (the study of fish), educator and peace activist
Peace activist

A peace activist is a political activist who advocates for a peaceful resolution of political disputes. Peace activists are part of the peace movement....
. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University
Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
.

Jordan was born in Gainesville, New York
Gainesville, New York

Gainesville is a village in Wyoming County, New York, New York, USA. The population was 304 at the 2000 census. The village is named after General Edmund P....
, and studied at Cornell University
Cornell University

Cornell University located in Ithaca, New York, USA, is a private university with four Statutory college. Its two medical campuses are in New York City and Education City, Qatar....
, Butler University
Butler University

Butler University is a private liberal arts university in Indianapolis, Indiana, Indiana, United States. It was founded by abolitionist and Lawyer Ovid Butler in 1855....
, and the Indiana University School of Medicine.






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David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was a leading eugenicist
Eugenics

Eugenics is a scientific field involving the controlled breeding of humans in order to achieve desirable traits in future generations. Eugenics was at its height in first half of the 20th century and was largely abandoned with the end of World War II....
, ichthyologist (the study of fish), educator and peace activist
Peace activist

A peace activist is a political activist who advocates for a peaceful resolution of political disputes. Peace activists are part of the peace movement....
. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University
Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
.

Jordan was born in Gainesville, New York
Gainesville, New York

Gainesville is a village in Wyoming County, New York, New York, USA. The population was 304 at the 2000 census. The village is named after General Edmund P....
, and studied at Cornell University
Cornell University

Cornell University located in Ithaca, New York, USA, is a private university with four Statutory college. Its two medical campuses are in New York City and Education City, Qatar....
, Butler University
Butler University

Butler University is a private liberal arts university in Indianapolis, Indiana, Indiana, United States. It was founded by abolitionist and Lawyer Ovid Butler in 1855....
, and the Indiana University School of Medicine. In 1885, he was named President of Indiana University, becoming the nation's youngest university president at age 34.In 1891, he became president of Stanford, serving there as president until 1913 and chancellor until his retirement in 1916.

Although highly regarded as an ichthyologist, Jordan was best known for being a peace activist. He argued that war was detrimental to the human species because it removed the strongest organisms from the gene pool. Jordan was president of the World Peace Foundation from 1910 to 1914 and president of the World Peace Conference in 1915, and opposed U.S. involvement in World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
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In 1925, Jordan was an expert witness for the defense in the Scopes Trial
Scopes Trial

"'Scopes Trial'" was an United States legal case that tested the Butler Act, which made it unlawful, in any state-funded educational establishment in Tennessee, "to teach any theory that denies the story of the Creation according to Genesis of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of anima...
.

Jordan's papers are housed at Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College is a Private school, Independent school, Liberal arts colleges in the United States in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,500 students....
.

Monuments and memorials

  • NOAA research vessel
    Research vessel

    A research vessel is a ship designed and equipped to carry out research at sea. Research vessels carry out a number of roles. Some of these roles can be combined into a single vessel, others require a dedicated vessel....
     David Starr Jordan
  • David Starr Jordan High School in Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California

    Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
  • David Starr Jordan High School
    Jordan High School (Long Beach, California)

    Staff*Mario Jimenez-Co-Principal*Rosalind Morgan-Co-PrincipalDavid Starr Jordan High School A part of the Long Beach Unified School District and accredited by Western Association of Schools and Colleges through 2013....
     in Long Beach, California
    Long Beach, California

    Long Beach is a large city located in southern California, USA, on the Pacific Ocean coast. It is situated in Los Angeles County, about south of downtown Los Angeles....
  • David Starr Jordan Junior High School in Burbank, California
    Burbank, California

    Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 100,316 at the United States Census, 2000.Burbank is located in the eastern region of the San Fernando Valley, north of Downtown Los Angeles, California....
  • Jordan Middle School in Palo Alto, California
    Palo Alto, California

    Palo Alto is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States....
  • "Jordan River", a stream flowing through the Indiana University campus
  • Jordan Avenue in Bloomington
    Bloomington, Indiana

    Bloomington is a city and the county seat of Monroe County, Indiana in the southern region of the U.S. state of Indiana. According to the United States Census, 2000, the city population was 69,291 and its Bloomington, Indiana metropolitan area had a population of 175,506....
  • Jordan Hall, home of the Indiana University Department of Biology located in Bloomington Indiana.
  • Jordan Hall, home of the Psychology Department at Stanford University
    Stanford University

    Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....


Notable works

  • Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States (1876)
  • Science sketches (1887)
  • Fishes of North and Middle America (four volumes, 1896-1900)
  • Animal Life: A First Book of Zoölogy (1900), with Vernon L. Kellog
  • The Philosophy of Despair (1901)
  • Food and Game Fishes of North America (1902), with Barton Warren Evermann|B. W. Evermann
  • Guide to the Study of Fishes (1905)
  • Life's Enthusiasms (1906)
  • Days of a Man (1922) - autobiography
  • The Blood of the Nation
  • War and Waste (1913)
  • War's Aftermath (1914), with H. E. Jordan
  • Ways of Lasting Peace
  • Democracy and World Relations
  • Imperial Democracy
  • Shore Fishes of Hawaii


Eponymy

The genera Jordania
Jordânia

Jord?nia is a Brazilian municipality located in the northeast of the state of Minas Gerais. The city belongs to the mesoregion of Jequitinhonha and to the microregion of Almenara, Minas Gerais....
 Starks, 1895, Davidijordania Popov, 1931, and Jordanella Goode
George Brown Goode

George Brown Goode , was an ichthyologist, although most of his time was spent as a museum administrator and he was very interested in the history of science, especially the History of science in United States....
 & Bean
Tarleton Hoffman Bean

Tarleton Hoffman Bean was an United States ichthyologist, born at Bainbridge, Pennsylvania. After teaching in a high school, in 1874 he became associated with the United States Fish Commission, working on the Connecticut coast....
, 1879 are named after him.

Species named after him include:
  • Agonomalus jordani Jordan & Starks, 1904.
  • Agonomalus jordani Schmidt, 1904.
  • Allocareproctus jordani (Burke, 1930).
  • Astyanax jordani
    Astyanax jordani

    Astyanax jordani is a freshwater fishof the characin family oforder Characiformes, native to Mexico.. It is called Cave Tetra , or by its local Spanish language name Sardina Ciega....
     (Hubbs & Innes, 1936).
  • Caelorinchus jordani Smith & Pope, 1906.
  • Caulophryne jordani Goode
    George Brown Goode

    George Brown Goode , was an ichthyologist, although most of his time was spent as a museum administrator and he was very interested in the history of science, especially the History of science in United States....
     & Bean
    Tarleton Hoffman Bean

    Tarleton Hoffman Bean was an United States ichthyologist, born at Bainbridge, Pennsylvania. After teaching in a high school, in 1874 he became associated with the United States Fish Commission, working on the Connecticut coast....
    , 1896    .
  • Chimaera jordani Tanaka, 1905.
  • Charal, Chirostoma jordani Woolman, 1894.
  • Jordan's tuskfish, Choerodon jordani (Snyder, 1908).
  • Flame wrasse, Cirrhilabrus jordani Snyder, 1904.
  • Smooth lumpfish, Cyclopteropsis jordani Soldatov, 1929.
  • Diplacanthopoma jordani Garman
    Samuel Garman

    Samuel Walton Garman was a natural history/ zoologist from Pennsylvania. He studied under Louis Agassiz. In 1868 he joined an expedition to the American West with John Wesley Powell....
    , 1899    .
  • Mimic triplefin, Enneanectes jordani (Evermann & Marsh, 1899).
  • Petrale sole, Eopsetta jordani (Lockington, 1879).
  • Greenbreast darter, Etheostoma jordani Gilbert, 1891.
  • Gadella jordani (Böhlke & Mead, 1951).
  • Yellow Irish lord, Hemilepidotus jordani Bean
    Tarleton Hoffman Bean

    Tarleton Hoffman Bean was an United States ichthyologist, born at Bainbridge, Pennsylvania. After teaching in a high school, in 1874 he became associated with the United States Fish Commission, working on the Connecticut coast....
    , 1881    .
  • Brokenline lanternfish, Lampanyctus jordani Gilbert, 1913.
  • Jordan's snapper, Lutjanus jordani (Gilbert, 1898).
  • Shortjaw eelpout, Lycenchelys jordani (Evermann & Goldsborough, 1907).
  • Malthopsis jordani Gilbert, 1905.
  • Gulf grouper
    Gulf grouper

    The gulf grouper is a species of fish in the Serranidae family. It is Endemism to Mexico. Category:Fauna of Mexico...
    , Mycteroperca jordani (Jenkins & Evermann, 1889).
  • Neosalanx jordani Wakiya & Takahashi, 1937.
  • Patagonotothen jordani (Thompson, 1916).
  • Ptychidio jordani Myers, 1930.
  • Northern ronquil, Ronquilus jordani (Gilbert, 1889).
  • Shortbelly rockfish, Sebastes jordani (Gilbert, 1896).
  • Jordan's damsel, Teixeirichthys jordani (Rutter, 1897).
  • Jordan's sculpin, Triglops jordani (Schmidt, 1903).


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