Thomas F. Ford

Thomas Francis Ford ( born February 18, 1873 in St. Louis, Missouri, † December 26, 1958 in South Pasadena, California ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1945 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Ford attended both public and private schools. Between 1896 and 1903 he worked for the United States Postal Service. He then studied in Toledo ( Ohio) law. Between 1913 and 1919 he was in the states of Washington, Idaho and California, and in the federal capital, Washington DC in the newspaper business operates. From 1919 to 1929 he was also active in Los Angeles in this area. In the years 1920 and 1921 he held at the University of Southern California Lectures on international trade. Between 1920 and 1931 he was next to his journalistic activities also Head of Public Relations of Water and Power Authority of the City of Los Angeles. From 1931 to 1933 he was there also to the City Council. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1932, Ford was elected in the then newly established 14th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1933. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1945 six legislative periods. Between 1933 and 1941 there, the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked.

1944 renounced Thomas Ford on another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he managed his now acquired properties. He died on December 26, 1958 in South Pasadena.