John Ford (Tennessee politician), Date of Birth

    

John Ford (Tennessee politician)

Tennessee politician

Date of Birth: 03-May-1942

Profession: politician, funeral director

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About John Ford (Tennessee politician)

  • John Newton Ford (born May 3, 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee), is a former democratic member of the Tennessee State Senate and a member of Tennessee's most prominent African-American political family.
  • He is the older brother of former U.S.
  • Representative Harold Ford, Sr.
  • and the uncle of former Tennessee U.S.
  • Representative and 2006 United States Senate candidate Harold Ford, Jr. In April 2007, Ford was convicted of federal bribery as part of the Operation Tennessee Waltz scandal.
  • He served 52 months of a 66-month sentence in U.S.
  • federal prison, from April 2008 to August 2012.
  • Ford resigned from the Tennessee State Senate on May 28, 2005, in a letter to Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee, John S.
  • Wilder.

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