About James Ford
Lived 1783 – 1859 (aged 76). James Ford was an American politician.
James Ford (May 4, 1783 – August 18, 1859) was a Jacksonian member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography James Ford was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. He moved to New York City in 1797 and to Lindsley Town (later Lindley, New York) in 1803. He moved to Tioga County, Pennsylvania, and was elected a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1824 and 1825.
Ford was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses. He operated a sawmill and a gristmill at Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, until his death at that place in 1859. Interment in the old Lindsley family cemetery at Lindley, New York.
The James Ford House is a house he had built for his son in 1831. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
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American politician
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James Ford was born on 4 May 1783 in Perth Amboy.
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James Ford died on 18 August 1859 in Lawrenceville.
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James Ford was a politician.
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· DBpedia: James Ford (Pennsylvania politician)
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