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3 unusual facts about Johnny Ford


Johnny Ford

Johnny L. Ford (born August 23, 1942, in Midway, Alabama) is an American politician and mayor of Tuskegee, Alabama, and a former Alabama State Representative.

He was, along with A.J. Cooper of Prichard, elected the first black mayors of cities of more than 10,000 people in the modern era in Alabama in 1972 (although Hobson City had been black-run since its incorporation in 1899, but it was a smaller community).

Ford rejoined the Democratic party and ran for the state Senate district 28 in 2010, succeeding Myron Penn.



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