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{{Short description|American politician}}
{{under construction}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| birthname = Charles A. Ford
| image =
| image_size = 220px
| office = Member of the [[Virginia House of Delegates]] for [[Clarke County, Virginia|Clarke]] and [[Warren County, Virginia|Warren Counties]]
| term_start1 = January 11, 1922
| term_end1 = January 8, 1924
| predecessor1 = [[Kenneth Newcomer Gilpin|Kenneth N. Gilpin]]
| successor1 = [[Boyd R. Richards]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1855|8|28}}
| birth_place = [[Frederick County, Virginia|Frederick County]], [[Virginia]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1933|12|18|1855|8|18}}
| death_place =
| resting_place =
| residence = , [[Clarke County, Virginia]]
| party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| spouse =
| children =
| education =
| profession = merchant, real estate dealer, Baptist leader, politician
| signature =
}}
'''Charles A. Ford''' (August 28, 1855 – December 18, 1933) was a merchant, politician and active [[Baptist]] who served a single term in the [[Virginia House of Delegates]] representing [[Clarke County, Virginia|Clarke]] and [[Warren County, Virginia|Warren Counties]].<ref>{{cite book|last= Dodson|first= E. Griffith|author-link= E. Griffith Dodson|title= The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1919-1939|page= 250|url= http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006260269|access-date= February 21, 2016|year= 1939|publisher= [[Library of Virginia|Virginia State Library]]|location= [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]]|archive-date= October 24, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/2020102...g.hathitrust.org/Record/006260269|url-status= live}}</ref>
==Early life and education==
Born in [[Frederick County, Virginia]] to farmer William Ford (1811-) and his wife. After the American Civil War, his father operated a mill east of Frederick County in Clarke County's [[Chapel Rural Historic District|Chapel district]]. The family included a younger brother and several sisters.<ref>1880 U.S. Federal Census for Chapel District, Clarke County, Virginia p. 25 of 44</ref> Charles was educated at what was then the Shenandoah Valley Academy near [[Winchester, Virginia]] (the modern Shenandoah Valley Academy, a boarding school near New Market, Virginia was founded decades later by Seventh Day Adventists).<ref>Dodson</ref> In 1881 he married Annie S. Sprint.<ref>Dodson</ref>
==Career==
As an adult, Ford became a merchant and dealt in real estate. He also was active in his church and served as clerk and moderator of the Shenandoah Baptist Association, which had been formed in 1883 at [[Bethel Memorial Church]] in Clarke County and now consists of 17 churches in Virginia and West Virginia.<ref>Dodson</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=HISTORY {{!}} Shenandoah Baptist Association of Virginia & West Virginia |url=https://sbaonline.org/about-us/history/ |access-date=2024-04-28 |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230926163518/https://sbaonline.org/about-us/history/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Voters from Clarke and adjacent Warren county elected him as their (part-time) representative in the [[Virginia House of Delegates]] in 1921 (for the term beginning in January 1922), but legislators added Winchester to the district in the reapportionment following the federal census and [[Boyd R. Richards]] of Winchester was elected to the larger district in 1923.<ref>Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp.</ref>
Ford died on December 18, 1933.
==References==
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[[Category
emocratic Party members of the Virginia House of Delegates]]
[[Categoryeople from Clarke County, Virginia]]
[[Category:Members of the Virginia House of Delegates]]
[[Category:1855 births]]
[[Category:1933 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century American legislators]]
[[Category:20th-century Virginia politicians]]
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{{Short description|American politician}}
{{under construction}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| birthname = Charles A. Ford
| image =
| image_size = 220px
| office = Member of the [[Virginia House of Delegates]] for [[Clarke County, Virginia|Clarke]] and [[Warren County, Virginia|Warren Counties]]
| term_start1 = January 11, 1922
| term_end1 = January 8, 1924
| predecessor1 = [[Kenneth Newcomer Gilpin|Kenneth N. Gilpin]]
| successor1 = [[Boyd R. Richards]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1855|8|28}}
| birth_place = [[Frederick County, Virginia|Frederick County]], [[Virginia]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1933|12|18|1855|8|18}}
| death_place =
| resting_place =
| residence = , [[Clarke County, Virginia]]
| party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| spouse =
| children =
| education =
| profession = merchant, real estate dealer, Baptist leader, politician
| signature =
}}
'''Charles A. Ford''' (August 28, 1855 – December 18, 1933) was a merchant, politician and active [[Baptist]] who served a single term in the [[Virginia House of Delegates]] representing [[Clarke County, Virginia|Clarke]] and [[Warren County, Virginia|Warren Counties]].<ref>{{cite book|last= Dodson|first= E. Griffith|author-link= E. Griffith Dodson|title= The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1919-1939|page= 250|url= http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006260269|access-date= February 21, 2016|year= 1939|publisher= [[Library of Virginia|Virginia State Library]]|location= [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]]|archive-date= October 24, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/2020102...g.hathitrust.org/Record/006260269|url-status= live}}</ref>
==Early life and education==
Born in [[Frederick County, Virginia]] to farmer William Ford (1811-) and his wife. After the American Civil War, his father operated a mill east of Frederick County in Clarke County's [[Chapel Rural Historic District|Chapel district]]. The family included a younger brother and several sisters.<ref>1880 U.S. Federal Census for Chapel District, Clarke County, Virginia p. 25 of 44</ref> Charles was educated at what was then the Shenandoah Valley Academy near [[Winchester, Virginia]] (the modern Shenandoah Valley Academy, a boarding school near New Market, Virginia was founded decades later by Seventh Day Adventists).<ref>Dodson</ref> In 1881 he married Annie S. Sprint.<ref>Dodson</ref>
==Career==
As an adult, Ford became a merchant and dealt in real estate. He also was active in his church and served as clerk and moderator of the Shenandoah Baptist Association, which had been formed in 1883 at [[Bethel Memorial Church]] in Clarke County and now consists of 17 churches in Virginia and West Virginia.<ref>Dodson</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=HISTORY {{!}} Shenandoah Baptist Association of Virginia & West Virginia |url=https://sbaonline.org/about-us/history/ |access-date=2024-04-28 |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230926163518/https://sbaonline.org/about-us/history/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Voters from Clarke and adjacent Warren county elected him as their (part-time) representative in the [[Virginia House of Delegates]] in 1921 (for the term beginning in January 1922), but legislators added Winchester to the district in the reapportionment following the federal census and [[Boyd R. Richards]] of Winchester was elected to the larger district in 1923.<ref>Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp.</ref>
Ford died on December 18, 1933.
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ford, Charles A.}}
[[Category
emocratic Party members of the Virginia House of Delegates]][[Category
eople from Clarke County, Virginia]][[Category:Members of the Virginia House of Delegates]]
[[Category:1855 births]]
[[Category:1933 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century American legislators]]
[[Category:20th-century Virginia politicians]]
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