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Harold Ford, Jr.
Harold Eugene Ford, Jr. (born May 11, 1970) is an American politician and was the last chairman of the now-defunct Democratic Leadership Council (DLC).〔 He was a Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives from , centered in Memphis, from 1997 to 2007. Ford did not seek re-election to his House seat in 2006 when he unsuccessfully sought the Senate seat vacated by retiring Bill Frist.
==Family and education==
Ford is the son of former Congressman Harold Ford, Sr. and Dorothy Bowles Ford. His family has long been prominent in Memphis' African-American community. His grandfather had established his own business, a funeral home, which gave them a broad network in the community. E.H. Crump, a prominent white Democrat, dominated city and state politics in the early 20th century and befriended Harold Ford Jr.'s grandfather, N.J. Ford.〔 〕
Ford lived the first years of his life within the living quarters of his family-owned business N.J. Ford And Sons Funeral Home, which at the time was located in the Riverside neighborhood. He was baptized at his family church, Mt. Moriah-East Baptist Church. He attended Double Tree Elementary School, a public Montessori school in the Westwood neighborhood and he graduated from the private St. Albans School for Boys, a prestigious university-preparatory school in Washington, D.C., which he attended after his father became a Congressman. The younger Ford earned a B.A. in American history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992.〔http://www.house.gov/ford/about/index.shtml〕
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