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Nicholas Ford
Nicholas Ford
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives; from Missouri's 9th district
	In office; March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1883
Preceded by	David Rea
Succeeded by	James Broadhead
Personal details
Born	June 21, 1833; Wicklow, Ireland
Died	June 18, 1897 (aged 63); Miltonvale, Kansas, U.S.
Resting place	Catholic Cemetery, Ford City, Missouri, U.S.
Nationality	American
Political party	Republican
Other political; affiliations	Greenback
Occupation	Politician

Nicholas Ford (June 21, 1833 – June 18, 1897) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.

Born in Wicklow, Ireland, Ford attended the village school and Maynooth College, Dublin, Ireland. Ford emigrated to the United States in 1848 with his parents, who settled in Chicago, Illinois. He moved to St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1859 and later to Colorado and Montana, states in which he engaged in mining. He returned to Missouri and settled in Rochester, Andrew County, and engaged in mercantile pursuits.

Ford was elected a member of the State house of representatives in 1875.

Ford was elected as a Greenbacker (National Party) to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1883). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress and for election in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress. He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Missouri in 1884. He moved to Virginia City, Nevada. He served as member of the first city council. He retired from active business and moved to Miltonvale, Kansas, where he died June 23, 1897. He was interred in the Catholic Cemetery, Aurora, Kansas.

Ford is the namesake of the community of Ford City, Missouri.^[1]

References

United States Congress. "Nicholas Ford (id: F000266)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

^ "Gentry County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

External links

Nicholas Ford at Find a Grave

Party political offices
Preceded by David Patterson Dyer	Republican nominee for Governor of Missouri 1884	Succeeded by Elbert Kimball
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by David Rea	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri's 9th congressional district March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1883	Succeeded by James Broadhead