James Ford (May 4, 1783 – August 18, 1859) was a
Jacksonian member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they ...
from
Pennsylvania.
Biography
James Ford was born in
Perth Amboy, New Jersey. He moved to
New York City in 1797 and to Lindsley Town (later
Lindley, New York
Lindley is a town in southern Steuben County, New York, United States. The population was 1,816 at the 2020 census. The town was named after the early settler Eleazer Lindsley.
The town is situated south of the city of Corning.
History
The ...
) in 1803. He moved to
Tioga County, Pennsylvania, and was elected a member of the
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two-year terms from single member districts.
It ...
in 1824 and 1825.
Ford was elected as a Jacksonian to the
Twenty-first and
Twenty-second Congresses. He operated a sawmill and a gristmill at
Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, until his death at that place in 1859. Interment in the old Lindsley family cemetery at Lindley, New York.
The
James Ford House
James Ford House is a historic home located at Lawrenceville in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. It is a -story brick house built in 1831 in the late Federal style. Congressman James Ford had this house built for his son.
It was listed on the Nat ...
is a house he had built for his son in 1831. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Sources
The Political Graveyard
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Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
1783 births
1859 deaths
Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
19th-century American politicians