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- former president gerald ford dies at 93 President Gerald Ford, shown in a 1932 file photo, died at the age of 93 at his home in Rancho Mirage, California on December 26, 2006. (UPI Photo/Gerald R. Ford Library). | License Photo
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Encyclopedia of the American Presidency On 9 August 1974, Nixon, on the verge of impeachment, resigned, and Ford succeeded to the presidency. The most controversial act of Ford's presidency--which may have cost him election to a full term­-occurred only four weeks after his administration began.
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Ford Is Buried After Thousands in Hometown Pay Respects GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Jan. 3 — Gerald R. Ford was buried on Wednesday on a grassy hill beside the rushing waters of the Grand River as the sun set, a final farewell in a week of remembrances for the nation’s 38th president.
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Richard Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office.fter his resignation, he was issued a pardon by his successor, Gerald Ford. In retirement, Nixon's work authoring several books and undertaking of many foreign trips helped to rehabilitate his image. He suffered a debilitating stroke on April 18, 1994, and died four days later at the age of 81.
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Gerald Ford 1 He is, at 93 years of age, one of only four U.S. Presidents to have lived to 90 or more years of age (the others being Reagan, also 93, Herbert Hoover, 90, and John Adams, also 90).  Gerald and Betty Ford hold the record as the longest-lived First Couple, at ages 93 and 88 respectively.
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State funerals in the United States 1 Gerald Ford died on December 26, 2006 at 6:45 PM, the latest in the calendar year a president has died. 2  Harry Truman also died on December 26 (exactly 34 years earlier, in 1972); he died earlier in the day, at 7:47AM.
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USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) As announced by the U.S. Navy on 16 January 2007, the ship will be named after the 38th President of the United States, the late Gerald R. Ford, whose World War II naval service included combat duty aboard the light aircraft carrier USS Monterey (CVL-26) in the Pacific Theater.
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Presidents After experiencing health problems and being admitted to the hospital four times in 2006, Ford died in his home on December 26, 2006. He lived longer than any other U.S. president, dying at 93 years and 165 days.
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Gerald Ford Gravesite Gerald Ford Gravesite. Location: Gerald R. Ford Museum. Address: 303 Pearl Street NW, Grand Rapids, Michigan. For photographs of the graves of all other U.S. Presidents visit the Presidents Gravesites page.
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Special Report: Former President Gerald Ford Dies In 1977, Gerald Ford began what was a very long career as a former president. He and his wife Betty settled in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Like many former presidents, he wrote books, traveled, lectured, worked on his presidential library at the University of Michigan and played golf.
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Gerald Ford Republican Gerald R. Ford became the 38th President of the United States (1974-1977) during a period of turmoil in the White House and mistrust in government.
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Gerald Ford Death and burial ground of Ford, Gerald Rudolph, born Leslie King. Ford became the 38th President of America and died at the very old age of 93, on 26-12-2006 at his home in Rancho Mirage, California, of arteriosclerotic cerebrovascular disease. Gerald Ford is buried in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Ancestry of Gerald R. Ford Leslie Lynch King Jr. (aka Gerald R. Ford, Jr.) was born on 14 July 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska and died on 26 December 2006 at his home in Rancho Mirage, California. Gerald Ford, Jr. married Elizabeth Betty Anne Bloomer Warren on 15 October 1948 at Grace Episcopal Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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How long was Gerald R Ford president? Confidence votes 25.2K. Gerald Ford was U. S. President for about two years and five months, from August, 1974 until January, 1977.
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Gerald Ford Gerald Ford was the 38th President to be born as well as the 38th to serve. Richard Nixon was 37th born, 37th to serve, and the 37th to die. John F. Kennedy was the 39th President born, 35th to serve and the 32nd to die.
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Ronald Reagan dies On this day in 2004, Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, dies, after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease.
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Gerald R. Ford Biography Gerald Ford as a student at Madison Elementary School, ca. 1923. Gerald Rudolph Ford, the 38th President of the United States, was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr., the son of Leslie Lynch King and Dorothy Ayer Gardner King, on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Gerald Ford Gerald Ford, in full Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr., original name Leslie Lynch King, Jr. (born July 14, 1913, Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.—died December 26, 2006, Rancho Mirage, California), 38th president of the United States (1974–77), who, as 40th vice president, succeeded to the presidency on the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon under the process ...
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Who assassinated President John F. Kennedy? Richard Nixon was the 37th President of the United States from January 20, 1969 to August 9, 1974 when he resigned due to the Watergate scandal. Gerald Ford was the 38th President of the United States from August 9, 1974 to January 20, 1977. Ford pardoned Nixon shortly after taking office.erald R. Ford (1913-2006) became the 38th President of the United States when Richard Nixon resigned. Ford became Vice President on December 6, 1973, after the resignation of … Spiro T. Agnew in October, 1973.
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Gerald Ford Ford was the longest-lived U.S. President, his lifespan being 45 days longer than Ronald Reagan's. He was the third-longest-lived Vice President, falling short only of John Nance Garner, 98, and Levi P. Morton, 96.
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United States presidential election, 1976 United States presidential election, 1976. The United States presidential election of 1976 was the 48th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976. Democrat Jimmy Carter of Georgia defeated incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford from Michigan. Carter's win represents the lone Democratic victory in a presidential election held between 1968 and 1992. President Richard Nixon had resigned in 1974 in the wake of the Watergate scandal, but before doing so, he appointed Ford as Vice President via the 25th Amendment
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Biography He was sworn in on December 6, 1973. On August 9, 1974, Nixon became the first president in U.S. history to resign from the office under the threat of impeachment in the Watergate scandal. The same day Gerald R. Ford took the oath of office as 38th President of the United States on August 9, 1974.erald Rudolph Ford was the 38th President of the United States from August 1974 until January 1977. Ford was born on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska as Leslie Lynch King, Jr., being the son of Leslie Lynch King and Dorothy Ayer Gardner King.
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Gerald R. Ford When Gerald R. Ford took the oath of office on August 9, 1974 as our 38th President, he declared, I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances...This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts..hen Gerald R. Ford took the oath of office on August 9, 1974, he declared, I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances.... This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.. It was indeed an unprecedented time.
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Gerald R. Ford Gerald R. Ford. When Gerald R. Ford took the oath of office on August 9, 1974 as our 38th President, he declared, I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances...This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts..
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Nixon and DÃ©tante/Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter Nixon and Détante/Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. _ Nixon was elected the 37th President in 1968. He promised to end the Vietnam war and pulled troops but increased bombing campaign, implemented Vietnamization. He began a policy of Détente to lessen Cold War tensions. But ended up Resigned after being implemented in Watergate scandal, 1972.
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- Ford visits Indy In April of 1976, President Gerald Ford visited Indianapolis to drum up support for re-election – seeking the Republican nomination against former California Gov. Ronald Reagan. Ford would win the nomination in a tight race before losing the general election to the Democratic nominee, former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter.