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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Michigan / USGerald Rudolph FORD, Jr.
(1913-2006)
FORD, Gerald Rudolph, Jr.,
a Representative from Michigan, Vice President, and thirty-eighth
President of the United States; born in Omaha, Douglas County,
Nebr., July 14, 1913; moved to Grand Rapids, Mich., 1914 and
attended the public schools; graduated, University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor, Mich., 1935; graduated from Yale University Law School,
New Haven, Conn., 1941; admitted to the bar in 1941; served in the
United States Navy 1942-1946; elected as a Republican to the
Eighty-first Congress; reelected to the twelve succeeding
Congresses and served from January 3, 1949, until his resignation
from the United States House of Representatives December 6, 1973,
to become the fortieth Vice President of the United States;
minority leader (Eighty-ninth through Ninety-third Congresses);
first Vice President to be nominated by the President and confirmed
by the Congress pursuant to the twenty-fifth amendment to the
Constitution of the United States; sworn in as the thirty-eighth
President of the United States, August 9, 1974, when President
Richard M. Nixon resigned, and served until January 20, 1977;
unsuccessful candidate for election in 1976; died on December 26,
2006, in Rancho Mirage, Calif.; lay in state in the Capitol
Rotunda, December 30, 2006, to January 2, 2007; interment at the
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and Library, Grand Rapids,
Mich.
Bibliography
Brinkley, Douglas. Gerald R. Ford. New York: Times Books,
2007; Ford, Gerald R. A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of
Gerald R. Ford. New York: Harper and Row, 1979; TerHorst,
Jerald F. Gerald Ford and the Future of the Presidency. New
York: Third Press, 1974.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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