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Oct 8, 2017 · Ford became vice-president of Ford & Sons Funeral Homes in 1969 and has remained involved in the family business. Ford served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1970 to 1975. In 1974 Ford was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and served until 1996, when he was succeeded by his son, Harold E. Ford Jr.
Ford was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the eldest son of former Representative Harold Ford Sr. and Dorothy Bowles Ford. [9] He has two brothers, Jake and Isaac, as well as two half-siblings, Andrew and Ava, from his father's second marriage. The Ford family has long been prominent in Memphis's black community.
May 20, 2019 · Harold Ford Sr. owns the distinction of being the first Black politician to represent the state of Tennessee for the U.S. Congress. The Memphis native was born May 20th, 1945. Ford was raised in the West Junction neighborhood in South Memphis. He followed in the footsteps of his undertaker father by joining the family business […]
Oct 8, 2017 · Ford became vice-president of Ford & Sons Funeral Homes in 1969 and has remained involved in the family business. Ford served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1970 to 1975. In 1974 Ford was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and served until 1996, when he was succeeded by his son, Harold E. Ford Jr.
Harold Eugene Ford Sr. is an American politician and Democratic former member of the United States House of Representatives representing the Memphis, Tennessee area for 11 terms—from 1975 until ...
*Harold Ford Sr. was born on this date in 1945. He is a Black politician and lobbyist. Harold Eugene Ford Sr. grew up on Horn Lake Road in the West Junction neighborhood of South Memphis. He is the eighth of fifteen children born to Newton, Jackson Ford, and Vera (Davis) Ford, prominent African American community members.
Harold E. Ford, Sr. served eleven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1974 to 1996. He was the first African American elected from the state of Tennessee to serve in Washington, and one of a new, younger generation of Democrat -Party lawmakers that e-merged as a significant political force in the mid-1970s.
