Gerald Rudolph Ford

Gerald Ford
38th President of the United States
In office August 9, 1974 – January 20, 1977
Vice President	Nelson Rockefeller
Preceded by	Richard Nixon
Succeeded by	Jimmy Carter
40th Vice President of the United States
In office December 6, 1973 – August 9, 1974
President	Richard Nixon
Preceded by	Spiro Agnew
Succeeded by	Nelson Rockefeller
House Minority Leader
In office January 3, 1965 – December 6, 1973
Deputy	Leslie C. Arends
Preceded by	Charles A. Halleck
Succeeded by	John Jacob Rhodes
Chair of the House Republican Conference
In office January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1965
Leader	Charles A. Halleck
Preceded by	Charles B. Hoeven
Succeeded by	Melvin Laird
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 5th district
In office January 3, 1949 – December 6, 1973
Preceded by	Bartel J. Jonkman
Succeeded by	Richard Vander Veen
Personal details
Born	Leslie Lynch King Jr. (1913-07-14)July 14, 1913 Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Died	December 26, 2006(2006-12-26) (aged 93) Rancho Mirage, California, U.S.
Resting place	Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Betty Bloomer (m. 1948)
Children	Michael Jack Steven Susan
Education	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (BA) Yale University (LLB)
Signature
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Service/branch	United States Navy
Years of service	1942–1946
Rank	Lieutenant commander
Battles/wars	World War II
Awards	American Campaign Medal Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (9 campaign stars) World War II Victory Medal

The Ford Cabinet
Office	Name	Term
President	Gerald Ford	1974–1977
Vice President	none*	1974
	Nelson Rockefeller	1974–1977
Secretary of State	Henry Kissinger	1974–1977
Secretary of Treasury	William E. Simon	1974–1977
Secretary of Defense	James R. Schlesinger	1974–1975
	Donald Rumsfeld	1975–1977
Attorney General	William B. Saxbe	1974–1975
	Edward H. Levi	1975–1977
Secretary of the Interior	Rogers Morton	1974–1975
	Stanley K. Hathaway	1975
	Thomas S. Kleppe	1975–1977
Secretary of Agriculture	Earl Butz	1974–1976
	John Albert Knebel	1976–1977
Secretary of Commerce	Frederick B. Dent	1974–1975
	Rogers Morton	1975
	Elliot Richardson	1975–1977
Secretary of Labor	Peter J. Brennan	1974–1975
	John Thomas Dunlop	1975–1976
	William Usery Jr.	1976–1977
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare	Caspar Weinberger	1974–1975
	F. David Mathews	1975–1977
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	James Thomas Lynn	1974–1975
	Carla Anderson Hills	1975–1977
Secretary of Transportation	Claude Brinegar	1974–1975
	William Thaddeus Coleman Jr.	1975–1977
Chief of Staff	Alexander Haig	1974
	Donald Rumsfeld	1974–1975
	Dick Cheney	1975–1977
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency	Russell E. Train	1974–1977
Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Roy Ash	1974–1975
	James Thomas Lynn	1975–1977
United States Trade Representative	William Denman Eberle	1974–1975
	Frederick B. Dent	1975–1977
* A vacancy by ascension briefly occurred for the position of Vice President from August 9, 1974 to December 19, 1974 after Richard Nixon's resignation from office.

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977, following the resignation of Richard Nixon. Prior to this he served eight months as the 40th Vice President of the United States, following the resignation of Spiro Agnew. He was the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment, and subsequently the only person to date to have served as both Vice President and President of the United States without being elected to executive office. Before his appointment to the vice presidency, Ford served 25 years as U.S. Representative from Michigan's 5th congressional district, the final nine of them as the House Minority Leader.

As President, Ford signed the Helsinki Accords, marking a move toward détente in the Cold War. With the conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam nine months into his presidency, U.S. involvement in Vietnam essentially ended. Domestically, Ford presided over the worst economy in the four decades since the Great Depression, with growing inflation and a recession during his tenure. One of his most controversial acts was to grant a presidential pardon to President Richard Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal. During Ford's presidency, foreign policy was characterized in procedural terms by the increased role Congress began to play, and by the corresponding curb on the powers of the President. In the Republican presidential primary campaign of 1976, Ford defeated former California Governor Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination. He narrowly lost the presidential election to the Democratic challenger, former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, making him the first President who succeeded to office as a result of a mid-term vacancy since Chester A. Arthur not to be elected in his own right.

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