Harold Ford, Sr.

Harold Eugene Ford, Sr. is a Democratic former member of the United States House of Representatives representing the Memphis, Tennessee area fortermsfrom 1975 until his retirement in 1997. He was the first AfricanAmerican to represent Tennessee in the U.S. Congress.

Harold Eugene Ford 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 Ford , prominent members of the AfricanAmerican community. His mother was a homemaker and his father was an undertaker and businessman, who opened N.J. Ford Funeral Home in 1932. His grandfather Lewie Ford started the family funeral business and became allied with E.H. Crump, an influential white politician in Memphis and the state in the early 20th century.

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