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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—CaliforniaThomas Francis FORD
(1873-1958)
FORD, Thomas Francis, a
Representative from California; born in St. Louis, Mo., February
18, 1873; attended public and private schools; served in the United
States Postal Service 1896-1903; studied law at Toledo, Ohio;
engaged in newspaper work in Washington, Idaho, California, and
Washington, D.C., 1913-1929; magazine and literary editor in Los
Angeles 1919-1929; lecturer on international trade at the
University of Southern California at Los Angeles in 1920 and 1921;
publicity director of the Los Angeles water and power department
1920-1931; member of the Los Angeles City Council 1931-1933;
elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the five
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1945); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1944; assumed the management of his
rental properties; died in South Pasadena, Calif., December 26,
1958; interment in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
Bibliography
Ford, L.C., and Thomas F. Ford. The Foreign Trade of the United
States. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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