Ford Administration - Early Life

Early Life

Gerald Ford was born to the former Dorothy Gardner and Leslie Lynch King on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska. Two weeks after he was born his parents separated, and he and his mother returned to Grand Rapids, Michigan, to live with her parents. After her divorce from King, Dorothy married Gerald R. Ford in 1916, and they began calling her son Gerald R. Ford Jr., although his name was not changed legally until 1935. The future president grew up in a close-knit family that grew to include his three younger half brothers, Thomas, Richard, and James. The Fords lived a comfortable life and Ford learned the values of hard work, honesty, and teamwork at home, as an active boy scout, and as an excellent student and athlete. Ford only saw his biological father a few times and considered Ford Sr. his father.

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