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|party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|spouse = {{marriage|Jean Neel|1943|2015}}
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▲|serviceyears = 1944–1946<br>1949–1962
▲|rank = [[File:US Army WWII TSGT.svg|12px]] [[Technical sergeant|Technical Sergeant]]<br>[[File:US-O2 insignia.svg|5px]] [[First lieutenant|First Lieutenant]]
|unit = [[Kentucky Army National Guard]]
|battles = [[World War II]]
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'''Wendell Hampton Ford''' (September 8, 1924 – January 22, 2015) was an American politician from the [[Commonwealth (U.S. state)|Commonwealth]] of [[Kentucky]]. He served for twenty-four years in the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] and was the [[List of Governors of Kentucky|53rd]] [[Governor of Kentucky]]. He was the first person to be successively elected [[Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky|lieutenant governor]], governor and United States senator in Kentucky history.<ref name=jones211>Jones, p. 211</ref> The [[Assistant party leaders of the United States Senate|Senate Democratic whip]] from 1991 to 1999, he was considered the leader of the state's Democratic Party from his election to governor in 1971 until his retirement from the Senate in 1999.<ref name="cj">Cross, 1A</ref> At the time of his retirement, he was the longest-serving senator in Kentucky's history, a mark which was then surpassed by [[Mitch McConnell]] in 2009.
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