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Harold Ford, Jr.
Former U.S. Representative from Tennessee’s 9th District , 1997-2006 (Democrat)

Outside Links

The following external websites may be of interest:

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

Photo of Ford
Birthday:May 11, 1970

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Harold Ford:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1997-2006
U.S. RepresentativeTennessee’s 9th
(was preceeded by Harold Ford)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Leader-Follower Score"
Ford is a follower according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Ford tends to cosponsors the bills of other Members of Congress who do not cosponsor Ford’s own bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

To compute the leader-follower score for Ford, we make a table that lists all other Members of Congress. Each row has the number bills sponsored by Ford and cosponsored by the other Member of Congress divided by the number of bills sponsored by the other Member of Congress and cosponsored by Ford.

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Ford's bills without Ford returning the favor. We then take the mean of (the logorithms of) these ratios. Thanks to Joe Barillari for the idea.

Voting Record

Voting RecordHarold Ford missed 505 (9%) of 5832 votes between Jan 7, 1997. and Dec 9, 2006. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.

 
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