John Ford House

John Ford House

John Ford House (born January 9, 1827 near Franklin , Tennessee , † June 28, 1904 in Clarksville , Tennessee) was an American politician . He represented the sixth constituency of the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

House attended private school in his home district and Transylvania University in Lexington , Kentucky . He graduated from Lebanon Law School in 1850 , was admitted to the bar, and then practiced in Franklin. He later moved to Montgomery County .

He decided to pursue a political career in 1853 when he ran for the Tennessee House of Representatives and was elected. House was a Constitutional Union Party presidential elector for John Bell and Edward Everett in 1860 . In 1861 he also represented his state as a delegate at the Provisional Confederate Congress . When the Civil War broke out, he joined the Confederation Army and was only released on his word of honor in Columbus , Mississippi, in June 1865 . After the war, he was a member of the Tennessee State Constitutional Convention in 1870.

House was elected a Democrat in the 44th and three subsequent US Congresses . In 1882 he decided not to run again. He held his office there from March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1883. He then resumed his practice as a lawyer. He died in Clarksville on June 28, 1904 and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery .

Web links

• John Ford House in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Ford House in the database of Find a Grave (English)