Leland M. Ford

Leland Merritt Ford ( born March 8, 1893 in Eureka, Nevada, † November 27, 1965 in Santa Monica, California ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1943 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Leland Ford attended the public schools of his home. Later he studied, among others, at the University of Arizona in Tucson, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. In the years 1909 and 1910 he worked for the company Southern Sierras Power Co. He then until 1913 worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad; in 1915, he worked in Los Angeles at the Union Pacific Railroad. Between 1915 and 1919 Ford lived in Lynchburg (Virginia), where he worked in agriculture and as a rancher. In 1919 he moved to Santa Monica. There he was active in the real estate industry. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1923 and 1927 he was a member of the Planning Commission of Santa Monica. From 1936 to 1939 he served as a district administrator in Los Angeles County.

In the congressional elections of 1938, Ford was the 16th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John F. Dockweiler on January 3, 1939. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1943 two legislative sessions. By 1941, there the last New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked.

In 1942, Leland Ford was not re-elected. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked again in the real estate industry. He died on November 27, 1965 in Santa Monica.