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38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977
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is real name was Leslie Lynch King, Jr.
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he was born on July 14, 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska
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He did football and got in the NFL
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He nearly lost his life when a typhoon hit his Navy aircraft carrier during World War II.
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In late 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Ford to the Warren Commission investigating John F. Kennedy’s assassination
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After applying for sea duty, Ford was sent in May 1943 to the pre-commissioning detachment for the new aircraft carrier USS Monterrey (CVL-26), at New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey.
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On October 15, 1948, at Grace Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids, Ford married Elizabeth Bloomer Warren (1918–2011), a department store fashion consultant
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Michael Gerald, born in 1949
John Gardner, known as Jack, born in 1951
Steven Meigs, born in 1956
Susan Elizabeth, born in 1957 -
Ford responded to the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor by enlisting in the navy
