Leonard Beck Jordan (May 15, 1899 – June 30, 1983) was an American politician who served as the 23rd governor of Idaho and a United States Senator for over ten years.

After college, he was a sheep rancher in Hells Canyon in Idaho during the Great Depression at Kirkwood Bar,[5][6] and then settled in Grangeville in 1940, where he established a farm implement business, a real estate agency, and an automobile dealership.

[2][7][8] During his four-year term, slot machines were banned; employment, unemployment, and job training services were merged; and the state highway commission was initiated.

[12][13] In November, Jordan defeated Democratic congresswoman Gracie Pfost of Nampa in the special election to complete the remaining four years of the term.

He went to graduate school in civil engineering at Iowa State University in Ames and was a district vice president with Morrison-Knudsen in Alaska.

[30] Youngest son Stephen (1932–2015) graduated from the University of Idaho in Moscow in 1955 in mechanical engineering,[31] and worked for General Electric.