Francisco Jordán

Francisco Jordán (13 September 1886 – 30 June 1921) was an Andalusian anarcho-syndicalist. He settled in Barcelona, where he worked as a carpenter and was a member of the National Confederation of Labor (CNT). At the national plenary session on 24 August 1916, he was elected General Secretary, replacing Manuel Andreu Colomer, and held the position until his resignation after being arrested in 1917.

Biography
Born in 1886, as a young man he lived in Pinos Puente, in the province of Granada, where he joined the CNT. He later moved to Barcelona, where in various writings he encouraged disobedience and not going to mass. For these publications he was locked in a punishment cell. In 1911 he was sentenced to four years in prison for being in possession of explosives. In 1916 he was elected Secretary General of the CNT, a position from which he resigned in February of the following year after being arrested for alleged resistance to authority.

He was assassinated on 30 June 1921, in the streets of Barcelona by the gunmen of the Sindicatos Libres.