Aaron L. Ford

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

Career

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

Ford was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1934 he was selected in the fourth district of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he T. Jeff Busby replaced on 3 January 1935. After three elections Ford could remain in Congress until January 3, 1943 a total of four legislative sessions. 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 not nominated by his party.

After the end of his time in Congress, Ford withdrew from politics and worked both in Washington and in Jackson as a lawyer. He died in 1983 in Jackson, but was buried in Cuthbert in the State of Georgia.

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