Aaron L. Ford

Aaron Lane Ford (born December 21, 1903 in Potts Camp , Marshall County , Mississippi , † July 8, 1983 in Jackson , Mississippi) was an American politician . Between 1935 and 1943 he represented the fourth constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Aaron Ford went through the public school system in Mississippi and then studied at the Faculty of Law at Cumberland University in Lebanon ( Tennessee ) Jura. After his admission to the bar in 1927, he began to practice in his profession in Aberdeen, Mississippi. That same year he moved his practice and residence to Ackerman . Between 1932 and 1934 he was a district attorney in the fifth judicial district of his state.

Ford belonged to the Democratic Party . In 1934 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in the fourth district of Mississippi, where he replaced T. Jeff Busby on January 3, 1935 . After three re-elections, Ford was able to remain in Congress for a total of four terms until January 3, 1943 . In 1938 he was an American delegate to the Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in The Hague . For the elections of 1942 he was no longer nominated by his party.

After his tenure in Congress ended, Ford retired from politics and worked as a lawyer in both Washington and Jackson. He died in 1983 in Jackson, but was in Cuthbert in the state of Georgia was buried.

Web links

• Aaron L. Ford in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Aaron L. Ford in the database of Find a Grave (English)