Gerald Ford

By MissW
  • Date of Birth

    Date of Birth

    Gerald Ford was born in Omaha, Newbraska.
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    High School Football

    Gerald was the Captain of his high school football team
  • Yale University

    Yale University

    Star College football player . gave up playnig for the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers to go to college. At Yale University, he studied law.
  • World War ll

    World War ll

    Served in the Navy during World War II.
  • Married

    Married

    Married Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Ford in 1948.
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    Children

    Gerald and Betty Ford Had four children named, Michael Gerald Ford, John (Jack) Gardner Ford, Steven Meigs Ford, and Susan Elizabeth Ford.
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    Term of office

    Gerald Ford was president from 1974 to 1977. His vice President was Nelson Rockefeller(1974-1977).
  • Pardoned Richard Nixon

    Pardoned Richard Nixon

    Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon. This move hung like a shadow over Ford's reputatuion for integrity. As all this chaos was going on, his wife Betty was diagnosed woth breast cancer.
  • Death

    Death

    Gerald Ford died at his home in Rancho Mirage, California, at the age of 93. A library in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a museum in Grand Rapids were both named in his honor.
  • Betty Ford dies

    Betty Ford dies

    Betty Ford died of natural causes at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, at age 93. A Rehabilitation Clinic in California was named in her honor.