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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriNicholas FORD
(1833-1897)
FORD, Nicholas, a
Representative from Missouri; born in Wicklow, Ireland, June 21,
1833; attended the village school and Maynooth College, Dublin,
Ireland; immigrated to the United States in 1848 with his parents,
who settled in Chicago, Ill.; moved to St. Joseph, Mo., in 1859 and
later to Colorado and Montana, in which States he engaged in
mining; returned to Missouri and settled in Rochester, Andrew
County, and engaged in mercantile pursuits; elected a member of the
State house of representatives in 1875; elected as a Greenbacker
(National Party) to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses
(March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress and for election in
1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; unsuccessful Republican
candidate for Governor of Missouri in 1884; moved to Virginia City,
Nev.; member of the first city council; retired from active
business and moved to Miltonvale, Kans., where he died June 18,
1897; interment in the Catholic Cemetery, Aurora, Cloud County,
Kans.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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