James Ford (Pennsylvania)

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James Ford (May 4, 1783–August 18, 1859) was a Jacksonian member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

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) in 1803. He moved to Tioga County, Pennsylvania, and was elected a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives 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.

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• James Ford (Pennsylvania) at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Samuel McKean George Kremer Espy Van Horne

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district 1829-1833 1829 - 1831 alongside: Alem Marr and Philander Stephens 1831 - 1833 alongside: Lewis Dewart and Philander Stephens

Succeeded by Henry A. P. Muhlenberg