Presidency of Gerald Ford

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.

The presidency of Gerald Ford began on August 9, 1974, when Gerald Ford became President of the United States upon the resignation of Richard Nixon from office, and ended on January 20, 1977, a period of 895 days. Ford had served as Vice President of the United States since December 6, 1973, following Spiro Agnew's resignation from that office. Ford defeated Ronald Reagan in the 1976 Republican presidential primaries, but narrowly lost the 1976 presidential election to Democratic Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia. The 38th United States president, Ford has the distinction of being the first, and to date the only person to serve as president without being elected to either the presidency or the vice presidency. He also was the only one among the five vice presidents who succeeded to the presidency intra-term during the 20th century not to subsequently win a full term of his own.

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 more controversial acts was to grant a presidential pardon to former President Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal. The foreign policy of the Ford administration was characterized in procedural terms by the increased role Congress began to play, and by the corresponding curb on the powers of the President.

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