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Gerald Ford - 38th President
Party: Republican
Term: Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977
Age at Inauguration: 61
Life Span: July 14, 1913
Spouse: Betty Bloomer Warren - Age at Marriage: 35
Vice President: Nelson Rockefeller

  • Appointed as vice president when Spiro Agnew resigned in 1973, he succeeded to the presidency upon the resignation of Richard Nixon in August 1974 Vice President Gerald Ford
  • Ford had two contact offers to play professional football Football Presidents
  • Ford is the only Eagle Scout to be president
  • Gerald Ford is the only person to be vice president and president without having been elected to either posititon
  • One month after taking office he issued a full pardon to former President Richard Nixon
  • The move reeked of a conspiratorial agreement by the two before he assumed the Oval Office
  • Ford suffered the consequences when he lost his bid for election in 1976
  • Gerald Ford knew how to get rid of guests who overstayed their welcome, or wrap up long boring meetings in the Oval Office by training his dog, Liberty to enter at his secret command and begin barking
  • Mr. Ford suffered two assassination attempts in the same month, September 1975, both at the hands of women. Assassination Attempts