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Harold Ford Jr

Managing director at Morgan Stanley; former US Representative from Tennessee

(son of Harold Eugene Ford), a Representative from Tennessee; born in Memphis, Shelby County, Tenn., May 11, 1970; graduated from St. Albans School for Boys, Washington, D.C.; B.A., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., 1992; J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 1996; staff aide, United States Senate Committee on the Budget, 1992; special assistant, United States Department of Commerce, 1993; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1997-January 3, 2007); not a candidate for reelection, but was an unsuccessful candidate to the United States Senate in 2006.

Relationships Interlocks Giving Data

Leadership & Staff

Marland Buckner Microsoft lobbyist and former chief of staff to Harold Ford

• chief of staff (past)

David Sutphen Senior Executive- Viacom

• Chief of Staff (past)

Mark J Schuermann

• chief of staff (past)

Ellen Chube

• Senior Legislative Assistant (past)

Teal Baker Lobbyist and Former Office Manager for Congressman Brian Baird

• Office Manager (past)

Scott Keefer Vice President of Policy Development

• Principal Policy Advisor ('01→'05)

Business Positions

Morgan Stanley investment bank

• Position ('11→?)*

Bank of America Corporation The largest bank holding company in the United States

• Position ('08→'11)

Merrill Lynch The wealth management, brokerage, and investment banking arm of Bank of America

• Position ('07→'08)

Board Memberships

Posse Foundation

• Board member

America's Promise Alliance Colin Powell's education initiative

• Board Member

Comeback America Initiative Defunct fiscal reform organization

• Board Member

Cornell Medical College Cornell University's medical school, in NYC

• overseer

Positions

Partnership for Public Service Public-private partnership

• advisory board member

Vanderbilt University

• Visiting Professor, Public Policy ('08→?)

New York Leadership for Accountable Government (NY LEAD) coalition advocating campaign finance reform in NYS

• Member ('12→?)

Democratic Leadership Council

• Chairman ('07→?)

The Hamilton Project Economic policy think tank founded by Robert Rubin & Roger Altman

• Advisory Council member

Donors

Keeping America's Promise Inc. Democratic leadership PAC

• Donation · 64,951 USD ('06)

Harold Ford Jr for Tennessee

• Principal Campaign Committee

Federal Election Campaign Contributions

1 / 5

Democratic National Committee Governing body for the U.S. Democratic Party

• 2 contributions · 10,200 USD ('08)

Democratic White House Victory Fund

• 1 contribution · 10,000 USD ('08)

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Political Fundraising Committee for Democratic Senatorial Candidates

• 2 contributions · 7,500 USD ('07→'08)

Bruce Lunsford American attorney, businessman and politician from Kentucky

• 2 contributions · 6,000 USD ('08)

Tennessee Democratic Party

• 3 contributions · 5,500 USD ('07→'09)

Barack Obama 44th President of the United States

• 2 contributions · 4,800 USD ('08)

Mark Warner US Senator from Virginia (2009-present); former Governor of Virginia

• 2 contributions · 4,300 USD ('08)

David Ronald Musgrove Former Governor of Mississippi

• 2 contributions · 3,300 USD ('08)

Mark Udall former US Senator and Representative from Colorado

• 2 contributions · 3,300 USD ('08)

Gregory W Meeks US Representative from New York

• 2 contributions · 3,300 USD ('09→'10)

Campaign Donors

1 / 155

Blair Effron Co-founder of investment firm Centerview Partners

• 5 contributions · 31,200 USD ('03→'06)

Fred Eychaner Chicago Media Mogul

• 4 contributions · 25,200 USD ('06)

Joshua Bekenstein Managing director at Bain Capital

• 5 contributions · 23,100 USD ('06→May 12 '06)

William E. Orgel Tower Ventures

• 11 contributions · 22,700 USD (May 24 '96→Nov 1 '06)

Steven L Kantor Founder, S2K Partners

• 12 contributions · 21,500 USD (Jul 28 '97→Nov 2 '06)

Donald R Mullen Jr Goldman Sachs Executive; founding partner, Pretium Partners

• 9 contributions · 21,194 USD (Jun 19 '01→May 12 '06)

Jane G Eskind First woman to win a statewide election in Tennessee

• 8 contributions · 19,700 USD ('96→Nov 1 '06)

Harold Ford Sr US Representative from Tennessee

• 13 contributions · 19,100 USD ('96→'06)

John W Rogers Jr Mutual fund CEO and friend of President Obama

• 5 contributions · 18,800 USD (Jan 21 '04→'06)

Mellody Hobson President of Ariel Capital Management

• 7 contributions · 18,700 USD ('01→'06)

Memberships

Democratic Party The U.S. Democratic Party

• Member

US House of Representatives lower house of the United States Congress

• Representative (Jan 7 '97→Jan 3 '07)

New York Leadership for Accountable Government (NY LEAD) coalition advocating campaign finance reform in NYS

• member

Family

Emily Ford Wife of Harold Ford Jr

• wife

Harold Ford Sr US Representative from Tennessee

• father

Schools

St. Albans School private, all boys (grades 4-12) day and boarding school in Washington DC

• High School

The University of Michigan Law School

• JD (?→'96) [+1]

• JD, Law (?→'96)

University of Pennsylvania Private, Ivy League university founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1740 as one of the nine colonial colleges chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence

• BA (?→'92) [+1]

• BA (?→'92)

Updated almost 3 years ago

Types	Person, Political Candidate, Elected Representative
Gender	Male
Birthday	May 11 '70
Website	http://www.house.gov/ford
Aliases	Mr Harold E. Ford Jr.

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