Nicholas Ford (21 June 1833-18 June 1897) was a member of the US House of Representatives (GB-MO 9) from 4 March 1879 to 3 March 1883, succeeding David Rea and preceding James Broadhead.
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Nicholas Ford was born in Wicklow, Ireland in 1833, and he emigrated to Chicago in 1848 and settled in St. Joseph, Missouri in 1859. He worked as a miner in Colorado and Montana before moving to Rochester, Missouri, and he worked as a merchant before serving in the state house in 1875 and as a Greenbacker member of the US House of Representatives from 1879 to 1883. He later moved to Virginia City, Nevada after a failed Republican gubernatorial bid in Missouri, and he retired to Miltonvale, Kansas and died there in 1897.