Name Henry Ford Role Political Scientist | Died 1925 | |
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Books The Scotch‑Irish in America, The rise and growth of Americ, Washington and his colleagues, The Cleveland Era: A Ch, The natural history of the state Similar People George MacKinnon Wrong, Edward Samuel Corwin, Max Farrand, Ralph Delahaye Paine, Carl L Becker | ||
Henry Jones Ford (25 August 1851 – 29 August 1925) was a political scientist, journalist, university professor, and government official. Her served as president of the American Political Science Association. He was appointed by Woodrow Wilson as the Banking and Insurance Commissioner of New Jersey in 1912.
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Biography
He was born on 25 August 1851 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Ford worked as a managing editor and editorial writer from 1872 to 1905, at six different newspapers in three cities Baltimore, New York and Pittsburgh.
Later returning to Baltimore, Ford taught at Johns Hopkins University, and afterwards taught at the University of Pennsylvania. He later took a job as professor of politics at Princeton University, at the request of the university's then-president, Woodrow Wilson.
Ford's association with Wilson would take him also into politics. When Wilson became governor of New Jersey, he appointed Ford Commissioner of Banking and Insurance; after Wilson became president, Ford was sent to the Philippines on a special mission, reporting directly to the president, and toward the end of Wilson's presidency Ford was named to a position on the Interstate Commerce Commission. Their association would also result in Ford's book Woodrow Wilson, the Man and His Work, which was an account of Wilson's experience on the presidential campaign trail.
Ford served as president of the American Political Science Association from 1918 to 1919.
He died on 29 August 1925 in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania.
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"The constitutional ideal is noble; but the politicians are vile. If only the checks could be made more effective, if only a just balance of power could be established beyond the strength of the politicians to disarrange ... the constitution would work perfectly."
Selected works
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