Background
Ford, Nicholas was born on June 21, 1833 in Wicklow, Ireland.
Ford, Nicholas was born on June 21, 1833 in Wicklow, Ireland.
Born in Wicklow, Ireland, Ford attended the village school and Maynooth College, Dublin, Ireland.
He moved to Saint Joseph, Missouri, in 1859 and later to Colorado and Montana, states in which he engaged in mining. He returned to Missouri and settled in Rochester, Andrew County, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. Ford was elected as a Greenbacker (National Party) to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1883).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress and for election in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress.
He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Missouri in 1884. He moved to Virginia City, Nevada.
He retired from active business and moved to Miltonvale, Kansas, where he died June 23, 1897. He was interred in the Catholic Cemetery, Aurora, Kansas.
Member Missouri Ho; member United States House Member 1st city council</td><tr><td class="label_burgverd11px"><b>Death</b></td></tr><tr><td> Died Miltonvale, Kansas