Elizabeth Anne Ford was first lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977,as the wife of President Gerald Ford. As first lady,she was active in social policy,and set a precedent as a politically active presidential spouse. She was also second lady of the United States from 1973 to 1974,when her husband was vice president.
Gerald Ford's tenure as the 38th president of the United States began on August 9,1974,upon the resignation of President Richard Nixon,and ended on January 20,1977. Ford,a Republican from Michigan,had been appointed vice president on December 6,1973,following the resignation of Spiro Agnew from that office. Ford was the only person to serve as president without being elected to either the presidency or the vice presidency. His presidency ended following his narrow defeat in the 1976 presidential election to Democrat Jimmy Carter,after a period of 895 days in office. His 895 day presidency remains the shortest of all U.S. presidents who did not die in office.
USS Sequoia is the former presidential yacht used during the administrations of Herbert Hoover through Jimmy Carter. To set a cost-cutting example,Carter ordered her sold in 1977.
David Hume Kennerly is an American photographer. He won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his portfolio of photographs of the Vietnam War,Cambodia,East Pakistani refugees near Calcutta,and the Ali-Frazier fight in Madison Square Garden. He has photographed every American president since Lyndon B Johnson. He is the first presidential scholar at the University of Arizona.
Jerald Franklin terHorst was an American journalist who served as the 14th White House Press Secretary during the first month of Gerald Ford's presidency. His resignation in protest of Ford's unconditional pardon of former president Richard Nixon is still regarded as a rare act of conscience by a high-ranking public official.
Anne Legendre Armstrong was a United States diplomat and politician. She was the first woman to serve as Counselor to the President and as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom,serving in those capacities under the Nixon,Ford,and Carter administrations. She was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1987.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician and lawyer who was the 38th president of the United States,serving from 1974 to 1977. A member of the Republican Party,Ford assumed the presidency after the resignation of President Richard Nixon,under whom he had served as the 40th vice president from 1973 to 1974 following Spiro Agnew's resignation. Prior to that,he served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949 to 1973.
On December 26,2006,Gerald Ford,the 38th president of the United States and the 40th vice president,died at his home in Rancho Mirage,California at 6:45 p.m. local time. At 8:49 p.m. local time,his wife of 58 years,Betty Ford,issued a statement announcing his death. The causes of death listed on the death certificate were arteriosclerotic cerebrovascular disease and diffuse arteriosclerosis.
The Gerald R. Ford Birthsite and Gardens in Omaha,Nebraska marks the location of the house at 3202 Woolworth Avenue where U.S. President Gerald R. Ford lived for a couple of weeks after his birth in July 1913. It was the home of his paternal grandparents,Charles Henry and Martha King.
Russell A. Rourke was an American lawyer and public official. He served in key staff positions on Capital Hill and in senior executive positions within the Federal Government. President Ronald Reagan appointed him to serve as the fifteenth Secretary of the Air Force.
The inauguration of Gerald Ford as the 38th president of the United States was held on Friday,August 9,1974,in the East Room of the White House in Washington,D.C.,after President Richard Nixon resigned due to the Watergate scandal. The inauguration –the most recent non-scheduled,extraordinary inauguration to take place –marked the commencement of Gerald Ford's only term as president. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger administered the oath of office. The Bible upon which Ford recited the oath was held by his wife,Betty Ford,open to Proverbs 3:5–6. Ford was the ninth vice president to succeed to the presidency intra-term,and he remains the most recent to do so,as of 2025.
Philip William Buchen was an American attorney who served as White House counsel during the Ford Administration.
David Robert Macdonald was an American government official. He served as United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury from 1974 to 1976;as Under Secretary of the Navy from 1976 to 1977;and as Deputy U.S. Trade Representative from 1981 to 1983.
The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum is the presidential museum and burial place of Gerald Ford,the 38th president of the United States (1974–1977),and his wife Betty Ford. It is located near the Pew Campus of Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids,Michigan. Ford's presidential museum is the only such facility under the auspices of the National Archives and Records Administration to be separate from the presidential library,which is located approximately 130 miles (210 km) to the east in Ann Arbor. Despite the separation,the library and museum are a single institution with one director.
The desk in the Vice President's Room of the United States Capitol,colloquially known as the Wilson desk and previously called the McKinley-Barkley desk,is a large mahogany partner's desk used by U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford in the Oval Office as their Oval Office desk. One of only six desks used by a President in the Oval Office,it was purchased in 1898 by Garret Augustus Hobart,the 24th Vice President of the United States,for the Vice President's Room in the United States Capitol.
The Young Turks was a splinter group of politicians in the United States within the Republican Party during the early 1960s. The group,mostly consisting of congressmen who had become disenchanted with the course of the Republican Party,worked within the system to appoint their fellow members into leadership roles,so they could take control of the party. They were considered "rebels" by the traditional Republicans. Gerald Ford,who would become president of the United States,rose to prominence as a Young Turk.
Robert Trowbridge Hartmann was an American political advisor,speechwriter and reporter,who served as Chief of Staff for Vice President Gerald Ford and Counselor to the President when Ford was elevated to the presidency in 1974.
Jerry H. Jones is an American political aide who served as White House Staff Secretary from 1974 to 1977 during the Ford Administration.
James E. Connor was an American political aide who served as White House Cabinet Secretary and Staff Secretary to the President under Gerald Ford.
Patricia Lindh was a longtime member of the Republican Party. She was an advisor to presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford in the 1970s and worked as Special Assistant to the Counsellor for Women's Programs in the mid-1970s.
