Harold Ford Jr., former Representative for Tennessee's 9th Congressional District

Ford was the representative for Tennessee’s 9^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1997 to 2006.

Photo of Rep. Harold Ford [D-TN9, 1997-2006]

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Ford is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2006 positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Ford sponsored and cosponsored. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Ford sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (17%) Economics and Public Finance (16%) Labor and Employment (14%) Social Welfare (13%) Education (11%) Finance and Financial Sector (10%) Armed Forces and National Security (10%) Families (8%)

Recent Bills

Some of Ford’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1997 to Dec 2006, Ford missed 505 of 5,832 roll call votes, which is 8.7%. This is much worse than the median of 2.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2006. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1997 Jan-Mar	71	1	1.4%	38^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	2	1.1%	35^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	2	0.9%	28^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	5	3.1%	61^st
1998 Jan-Mar	89	22	24.7%	97^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	7	3.8%	69^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	57	28.6%	99^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Jan-Mar	77	2	2.6%	54^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	6	3.3%	67^th
1999 Jul-Sep	204	4	2.0%	55^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	5	3.4%	61^st
2000 Jan-Mar	95	5	5.3%	63^rd
2000 Apr-Jun	277	22	7.9%	88^th
2000 Jul-Sep	130	7	5.4%	76^th
2000 Oct-Dec	101	9	8.9%	62^nd
2001 Jan-Mar	75	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Apr-Jun	135	6	4.4%	73^rd
2001 Jul-Sep	149	1	0.7%	23^rd
2001 Oct-Dec	153	20	13.1%	95^th
2002 Jan-Mar	79	4	5.1%	69^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	12	5.9%	77^th
2002 Jul-Sep	141	2	1.4%	35^th
2002 Oct-Nov	61	5	8.2%	79^th
2003 Jan-Mar	94	5	5.3%	78^th
2003 Apr-Jun	239	7	2.9%	60^th
2003 Jul-Sep	193	31	16.1%	96^th
2003 Oct-Dec	151	11	7.3%	77^th
2004 Jan-Mar	104	6	5.8%	62^nd
2004 Apr-Jun	221	14	6.3%	80^th
2004 Jul-Sep	161	8	5.0%	68^th
2004 Oct-Dec	58	4	6.9%	69^th
2005 Jan-Mar	90	8	8.9%	85^th
2005 Apr-Jun	272	11	4.0%	69^th
2005 Jul-Sep	146	10	6.8%	80^th
2005 Oct-Dec	163	23	14.1%	93^rd
2006 Jan-Mar	81	19	23.5%	97^th
2006 Apr-Jun	276	73	26.4%	99^th
2006 Jul-Sep	159	46	28.9%	97^th
2006 Nov-Dec	27	23	85.2%	98^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

@unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

Harold Ford Jr. is pronounced:

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Rep. Harold Ford Jr.

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