Harold Eugene Ford, Sr. was a United States Representative from Tennessee from 1975 to 1997. He is a Democrat. Ford was born in Memphis, Tennessee to Newton Jackson and Vera Davis Ford. He grew up with eleven brothers and sisters on South Memphis' Horn Lake Road. His father was owner and operator of N.J. Ford and Sons Funeral Home. His was from a prominent black family who were leaders in the funeral industry in the black community, dating back to the days of E.H. Crump.

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  • Harold Eugene Ford, Sr. was a United States Representative from Tennessee from 1975 to 1997. He is a Democrat. Ford was born in Memphis, Tennessee to Newton Jackson and Vera Davis Ford. He grew up with eleven brothers and sisters on South Memphis' Horn Lake Road. His father was owner and operator of N.J. Ford and Sons Funeral Home. His was from a prominent black family who were leaders in the funeral industry in the black community, dating back to the days of E.H. Crump. He attended Tennessee State University in Nashville, graduating in 1967. He also received a mortuary science degree from John A. Gupton College, a private mortuary science school also located in Nashville, in 1969. Ford later earned a M.B.A. degree at Howard University in 1982.
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  • his son, the Tennessee congressman from 1997 to 2007
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  • Dorothy Bowles Ford
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  • 1975 – 1983
  • 1983 – 1997
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  • Harold Eugene Ford, Sr. was a United States Representative from Tennessee from 1975 to 1997. He is a Democrat. Ford was born in Memphis, Tennessee to Newton Jackson and Vera Davis Ford. He grew up with eleven brothers and sisters on South Memphis' Horn Lake Road. His father was owner and operator of N.J. Ford and Sons Funeral Home. His was from a prominent black family who were leaders in the funeral industry in the black community, dating back to the days of E.H. Crump.
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