Former Memphis Congressman Harold Ford Jr. may or may not be out of politics (that remains to be seen), but Ford, who has logged considerable time in the past as an on-air commentator, will soon be back before the camera, on behalf of Fox News.
Fox CEO Suzanne Scott made the announcement this week that Ford, who some years back was a part-time commentator on her network, will be appearing “on all Fox News platforms” during both daytime and primetime programming.
After his first stint with Fox, Ford hooked up with MSNBC as a commentator and was a frequent guest on various NBC programs and on the syndicated show Imus in the Morning.
The son of former Congressman Harold Ford Sr., Ford succeeded his father in Congress as representative of Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District (Memphis), serving from 1997 to 2007. Running as the Democratic nominee, Ford narrowly lost a U.S. Senate race to Republican Bob Corker in 2006.
He later moved to New York, where he worked for some years on Wall Street and briefly flirted with the idea of running for the Senate in that state. Most recently, he has worked as chairman of RxSaver, a healthcare company.
Ford has maintained connections with Memphis and has visited here with relative frequency over the years. In 2019 he was the featured speaker of the Rotary Halloran Speaker Series, cosponsored by the Rotary Club of Memphis and former Orpheum president Pat Halloran.
