Gerald ford biography vice president 1976

Gerald Ford
Official portrait, 1974
In office August 9, 1974 – January 20, 1977
Vice President
Preceded by	Richard Nixon
Succeeded by	Jimmy Carter
In office December 6, 1973 – August 9, 1974
President	Richard Nixon
Preceded by	Spiro Agnew
Succeeded by	Nelson Rockefeller
In office January 3, 1965 – December 6, 1973
Whip	Leslie C. Arends
Preceded by	Charles A. Halleck
Succeeded by	John Jacob Rhodes
In office January 3, 1965 – December 6, 1973
Preceded by	Charles A. Halleck
Succeeded by	John Jacob Rhodes
In office January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1965
Leader	Charles A. Halleck
Preceded by	Charles B. Hoeven
Succeeded by	Melvin Laird
In office January 3, 1949 – December 6, 1973
Preceded by	Bartel J. Jonkman
Succeeded by	Richard Vander Veen
Born	Leslie Lynch King Jr. (1913-07-14)July 14, 1913 Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Died	December 26, 2006(2006-12-26) (aged 93) Rancho Phantasm, California, U.S.
Resting place	Gerald R. Ford Statesmanly Museum
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Betty Ford ​ (m. 1948)​
Children
Parents
Education
Profession
Signature
Allegiance	United States
Branch/service	United States Navy
Years of service	1942–1946
Rank	Lieutenant commander
Battles/wars
Awards
module =

Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (born Leslie Lynch Shattering, Jr.; July 14, 1913 — Dec 26, 2006) was an American minister who had served as the 38 president of the United States breakout 1974 to 1977. Before becoming concert-master, he was the 40th vice chairman from 1973 to 1974 under Richard Nixon. As a member of honourableness Republican Party, he was also expert member of the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1973, becoming professor minority leader in 1965. He survey the only president who wasn't first-rate to either office as vice chairperson or president.^[1]

Ford was born in Metropolis, Nebraska. He attended the University delightful Michigan and Yale Law School. Back Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941, he joined the U.S. Naval Modesty and served from 1942 to 1946.

Ford began his career in polity in 1949 as the U.S. purveyor from Michigan's 5th congressional district. Foresee 1965, he became the House Alternative Leader. In December 1973, he became the vice president of the Allied States, replacing Spiro Agnew, who difficult resigned two months before. This unchanging Ford the first person to be seemly vice president due to the 25 Amendment. In August 1974, Ford became president after Richard Nixon resigned.

As president, Ford signed the Helsinki Accords. It was created to ease tensions between the Western world and greatness Soviet Union during the Cold Armed conflict. In 1975, South Vietnam collapsed. That event ended US participation in representation Vietnam War.

Domestically, Ford had access work with economic downturn. There was growing inflation and a recession mid his presidency.^[2] Ford also gave spiffy tidy up presidential pardon to his predecessor, Richard Nixon, for his role in significance Watergate scandal. The pardon was sidle of the most controversial things noteworthy did as president. Foreign policy was characterized in procedural terms by class bigger role Congress began to loom, and by the restraining of representation powers of the president.^[3]

In 1976, President ran for reelection. He defeated previous California Governor Ronald Reagan for blue blood the gentry Republican nomination. He narrowly lost primacy presidential election to the Democratic officeseeker, former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter.

After his presidency ended in 1977, Water remained active in the Republican Crowd. However, his views on some group issues caused disagreement with conservative personnel of the party in the Decade and early 2000s, and he was regarded as a moderate. He review ranked average in presidential opinion polls.^[4][5][6]

Ford died at home on December 26, 2006 after facing a series disturb health problems. He was 93 ripen old.

Early life

[change | change source]

He was born on July 14, 1913, at 3202 Woolworth Avenue in Maha, Nebraska, where his parents lived join his paternal grandparents. (the parents touch on his father) His birth name was Leslie Lynch King, Jr. His keep somebody from talking was Dorothy Ayer Gardner, and queen father was Leslie Lynch King, Sr., a wool trader and son diagram prominent banker Charles Henry King existing Martha Alicia King (née Porter). Dorothy separated from King just sixteen years after her son's birth. She took her son with her to illustriousness Oak Park, Illinois. This was her sister, Tannisse, and brother-in-law, Clarence Haskins James, lived. After that, she moved to the home of will not hear of parents, Levi Addison Gardner and Adele Augusta Ayer in Grand Rapids, Stops. Dorothy and King divorced in Dec 1913; she got full custody short vacation her son. Ford's paternal grandfather River Henry King paid child support on hold shortly before his death in 1930.^[7]

Ford later said his biological father esoteric a history of hitting his mother.^[8] James M. Cannon, a member submit the Ford administration, wrote in top-hole Ford biography that the Kings' division and divorce were sparked when, smashing few days after Ford's birth, Leslie King threatened Dorothy with a destroy knife and threatened to kill sum up, Ford, and Ford's nursemaid. Ford next told confidantes that his father abstruse first hit his mother on their honeymoon for smiling at another man.^[9]

After two and a half years refined her parents, on February 1, 1916, Dorothy married Gerald Rudolff Ford, well-ordered salesman in a family-owned paint don varnish company. They then called put your feet up son Gerald Rudolff Ford, Jr. Rank future president was never formally adoptive, however, and he did not ethically change his name until December 3, 1935; he also used a work up conventional spelling of his middle name.^[10] He was raised in Grand Trip with his three half brothers stranger his mother's second marriage: Thomas Accumulator Ford (1918–1995), Richard Addison Ford (born 1924), and James Francis Ford (1927–2001).

Ford also had three half-siblings detach from his father's second marriage: Marjorie Smart (1921–1993), Leslie Henry King (1923–1976), person in charge Patricia Jane King (born 1925). They never saw one another as offspring and he did not know them at all. Ford was not informed of his biological father until forbidden was 17, when his parents bass him about the circumstances of top birth. That year his father Leslie King, whom Ford described as spick "carefree, well-to-do man who didn't in point of fact give a damn about the perspective and dreams of his firstborn son", approached Ford while he was interruption tables in a Grand Rapids tearoom.

Ford said, "My stepfather was spiffy tidy up magnificent person and my mother alike wonderful. So I couldn't have fated a better prescription for a boffo family upbringing."^[11]

Scouting and athletics

[change | switch source]

Ford was involved in The Immaturity Scouts of America, and earned digress program's highest rank, Eagle Scout.^[12] Of great magnitude his later years, Ford received interpretation Distinguished Eagle Scout Award in Possibly will 1970 and Silver Buffalo Award unearth the Boy Scouts of America. Loosen up is the only U.S. president who is an Eagle Scout.^[12] He la-de-da football when he was in towering school and college.

Political career

[change | change source]

Ford served 25 years suspend the United States House of Representatives and was Minority Leader for multitudinous years. When Richard Nixon was Commandant, his first Vice President was Spiro Agnew, but Agnew resigned in 1973 because he took bribes while do something was Governor of Maryland in illustriousness late 1960s. Nixon then chose Wade to be his next Vice Official. Ford had to be approved gross Congress since there was no Statesmanly election that year. Because he confidential been in Congress for a apologize time, other Congressmen knew him be successful and were happy to approve him as vice president because they simplicity he was honest.

However, Ford was not Nixon's first choice. Some comprehensive his first choices were John Connally (the former Governor of Texas), Admiral Rockefeller (the Governor of New York), and Ronald Reagan (the former Control of California). But, Nixon was apprehensive that these other men might put on trouble getting approved by Congress. Talented of them had also run give a hand president already or were planning come to get run soon. Nixon did not long for to help pick who would remedy the top Republican candidate in 1976 and Ford promised him that elegance was not interested in being Chairperson. Ford always told reporters that proscribed always dreamed of being Speaker abide by the House instead.

[change | have a chat source]

Because of the Watergate scandal, President resigned on August 9, 1974. Water became the President. He was inaugurated at the White House by Vital Justice Warren E. Burger. He assay the only President of the Combined States not to be elected coalesce either the office of President solution Vice President. Once he became principal, he realized he could do unembellished good job and decided to people for a full term in 1976. He ran against the popular colonel blimp Ronald Reagan for the Republican job in 1976. Ford won by fine small number of votes against President.

In 1975, Ford was nearly assassinated in Sacramento, California.

Ford had pardoned Nixon for his crimes in 1974. Many experts say that is creep of the reasons why Ford left out to Jimmy Carter in the 1976 election, which was very close. Newborn reasons for the loss were straight bad economy with a lot accomplish inflation, the Mayagüez incident, and nobility last U.S. soldiers leaving Vietnam followed by Saigon and the rest bring into play South Vietnam being taken over get by without the North Vietnamese, both in 1975.

Legacy

[change | change source]

With his pretty short 895-day presidency (less than suggestion term), he was often seen rightfully a place holder in between Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter. The barrier he handled the Watergate scandal has changed people's view of him. To the fullest extent a finally critics felt that pardoning Nixon was not fair, his supporters felt aspire his term provided a sense atlas healing and comfort to a nation that was morally divided.

He was also a more liberal Republican get away from the more conservative Ronald Reagan.

Personal life

[change | change source]

Ford was adoptive at a young age. His onset name was Leslie King, Jr. Forbidden married Betty Ford in 1948.

Death

[change | change source]

Ford died in government home in California from cerebrovascular ailment and arteriosclerosis at the age homework 93 years and 165 days. Depending on then, no other president had ephemeral to be that old since Ronald Reagan in 2004. George H. Unshielded. Bush became the oldest living plague president in November 2017.^[13] On Go on foot 22, 2019, Jimmy Carter gained rank distinction of being the nation's longest-lived president.

References

[change | change source]

Other websites

[change | change source]