Charles A. Ford (Virginia politician)
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Charles A. Ford | |
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| Member of the Virginia House of Delegates for Clarke and Warren Counties | |
| In office January 11, 1922 – January 8, 1924 | |
| Preceded by | Kenneth N. Gilpin |
| Succeeded by | Boyd R. Richards |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Charles A. Ford August 28, 1855 Frederick County, Virginia |
| Died | December 18, 1933 (aged 78) |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Residence | , Clarke County, Virginia |
| Profession | merchant, real estate dealer, Baptist leader, politician |
Charles A. Ford (August 28, 1855 – December 18, 1933) was a merchant, politician and active Baptist who served a single term in the Virginia House of Delegates representing Clarke and Warren Counties.[1]
Early life and education
Born in Frederick County, Virginia to farmer William Ford (1811-) and his wife. After the American Civil War, his father operated a mill east of Frederick County in Clarke County's Chapel district. The family included a younger brother and several sisters.[2] Charles was educated at what was then the Shenandoah Valley Academy near Winchester, Virginia (the modern Shenandoah Valley Academy, a boarding school near New Market, Virginia was founded decades later by Seventh Day Adventists).[3] In 1881 he married Annie S. Sprint.[4]
Career
As an adult, Ford became a merchant and dealt in real estate. He also was active in his church and served as clerk and moderator of the Shenandoah Baptist Association, which had been formed in 1883 at Bethel Memorial Church in Clarke County and now consists of 17 churches in Virginia and West Virginia.[5][6]
Voters from Clarke and adjacent Warren county elected him as their (part-time) representative in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1921 (for the term beginning in January 1922), but legislators added Winchester to the district in the reapportionment following the federal census and Boyd R. Richards of Winchester was elected to the larger district in 1923.[7]
Ford died on December 18, 1933.
References
- ^ Dodson, E. Griffith (1939). The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1919-1939. Richmond: Virginia State Library. p. 250. Retrieved February 21, 2016.
- ^ 1880 U.S. Federal Census for Chapel District, Clarke County, Virginia p. 25 of 44
- ^ Dodson
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- ^ https://sbaonline.org/about-us/history/
- ^ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp.