McCord had a lifelong interest in livestock breeding, focusing mainly on Jersey cattle and Tennessee Walking Horses.
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McCord was born in Unionville in Bedford County, Tennessee, the second of seven children of Thomas McCord, a farmer, and Iva (Steele) McCord.
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Three Tennessee governors— Buford Ellington, Henry Hollis Horton, and Jim Nance McCord— lived in Marshall County at the time of their run for governor.