Ford is a former Democratic U.S. Congressman who represented the Memphis area in the District 9 seat from 1997 to 2007.

My mom propped me up on a brown folding table at the back of my dad’s campaign headquarters and I spoke into a microphone attached to a cassette recorder. Harold Ford Jr. had politics ingrained ...

Harold Ford Jr., the Fox News political contributor who ... The seat is now held by Memphis Democrat Steve Cohen. Ford's father, Harold Ford Sr., held the District 9 seat from 1975 to 1997.