Who is Jim Jordan? The hard-right House speaker contender dogged by scandal

Contender for House speaker, described as political terrorist' by John Boehner, also linked to Ohio State sexual abuse scandal

Jim Jordan, the Ohio congressman who is seeking to become House speaker, is a prominent celebrity on the far right of US politics - and a magnet for controversy who a former speaker from his own party once called a political terrorist".

Jordan, 59, was elected to Congress in 2006 from a conservative, rural district of Ohio. A high school and college wrestling champion, he made his mark on the House as a founder of the hard-right Freedom caucus, helping oust two speakers, John Boehner and Paul Ryan, who were not deemed sufficiently extreme.