Gerald R. Ford

BIRTH NAME
Leslie Lynch King, Jr.

POLITICAL PARTY
Republican

RELIGION
Episcopalian

EDUCATION
University of Michigan B.A. 1935; Yale Law School JD 1941

VITALS
6 ft 0 in / 190 lbs

CAREER
1935-38 Boxing & football coach, Yale University
1941-48 Practiced law, Grand Rapids, Michigan
1942-45 Lieutenant, U.S. Navy
1945-46 Lieutenant commander, Naval Reserve Training Command, Glenview, Illinois
1949-73 U.S. Representative, Michigan
1973-74 U.S. Vice President (Nixon)

VICE PRESIDENT
Nelson A. Rockefeller (1974-77)

ADMINISTRATION
Pardoned Richard Nixon, Federal Election Campaign Act, Federal Election Commission, WIN (Whip Inflation Now) campaign (1974); Fall of Saigon, End of Vietnam War, Mayaguez incident, Two assassination attempts (1975)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENT
John Paul Stevens

FIRST LADY
Elizabeth “Betty” Anne Bloomer Warren (1974-77)

“I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.”
Remarks after being sworn in as Vice President, Washington, D.C., December 6, 1973

Portrait of Gerald Ford by Everett Raymond Kinstler, 1977.