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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeJohn Ford HOUSE
(1827-1904)
HOUSE, John Ford, a
Representative from Tennessee; was born near Franklin, Williamson
County, Tenn., on January 9, 1827; attended the local academy and
the Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., and was graduated from
the Lebanon Law School in 1850; was admitted to the bar and
commenced practice in Franklin, Tenn.; moved to Montgomery County,
Tenn.; member of the State house of representatives in 1853;
presidential elector on the Constitutional Union ticket of Bell and
Everett in 1860; member of the Provisional Congress of the
Confederacy from Tennessee; during the Civil War enlisted in the
Confederate Army and served until paroled in Columbus, Miss., in
June 1865; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1868;
member of the State constitutional convention in 1870; elected as a
Democrat to the Forty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses
(March 4, 1875-March 3, 1883); was not a candidate for renomination
in 1882; resumed the practice of law; died in Clarksville, Tenn.,
June 28, 1904; interment in Greenwood Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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