James Ford (Pennsylvania)

James Ford ( born May 4, 1783 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey; † August 18, 1859 in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1829 and 1833 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Ford attended the public schools of his home. In 1797 he moved to New York City and 1803 Lindsley Town ( New York). Later he settled in Tioga County, Pennsylvania down. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the later U.S. President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this. In 1824 and 1825 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1828 Ford was in the ninth constituency of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Espy Van Horne on March 4, 1829. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1833 two legislative sessions. Since the inauguration of President Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives James Ford operated a sawmill and a flour mill in Lawrenceville. There he is on August 18, 1859 and passed away.