Harold Ford, Jr., the former congressman from Tennessee, is gearing up to sponsor an upcoming educational event with his new fiancee, fashionista Emily Threlkeld, Big Head DC has learned. The power couple is helping to plan a glitzy benefit for NYC’s East Harlem School to be held on Nov. 8.

Washington insiders expect Ford to continue to ramp up his social schedule with his new first lady by his side as he preps to soon run for governor of his home state. As we first told you in July, Tennessee’s governor seat will be ripe for the plucking in 2010, and our sources said then that Ford has been very keen on running for the position. He’s also looking to have children soon, we’ve been told.

During Ford’s failed run for Senate in 2006, some opposing members of the GOP attempted to paint him as a philandering bachelor. In the past, he has been linked with infamous NYC D-lister Julia Allison, who had been caught up in a shifty plagiarism scandal during her Washington college days.

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