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'''Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.'''{{efn|Pronounced {{IPAc-en|ˈ|dʒ|ɛr|əl|d}} {{respell|JERR|əld}}<ref>{{cite web |title=President Ford Inaugural Ceremony |url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?8670-1/president-gerald-fords-inaugural-ceremony |website=C-SPAN.org |publisher=[[C-SPAN]] |access-date=January 25, 2021 |date=August 9, 1974 |archive-date=January 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210105003734/https://www.c-span.org/video/?8670-1/president-gerald-fords-inaugural-ceremony |url-status=live }}</ref>}} (born '''Leslie Lynch King Jr.'''; July 14, 1913{{spnd}}December 26, 2006) was the 38th [[president of the United States]], serving from 1974 to 1977. A member of the | '''Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.'''{{efn|Pronounced {{IPAc-en|ˈ|dʒ|ɛr|əl|d}} {{respell|JERR|əld}}<ref>{{cite web |title=President Ford Inaugural Ceremony |url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?8670-1/president-gerald-fords-inaugural-ceremony |website=C-SPAN.org |publisher=[[C-SPAN]] |access-date=January 25, 2021 |date=August 9, 1974 |archive-date=January 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210105003734/https://www.c-span.org/video/?8670-1/president-gerald-fords-inaugural-ceremony |url-status=live }}</ref>}} (born '''Leslie Lynch King Jr.'''; July 14, 1913{{spnd}}December 26, 2006) was the 38th [[president of the United States]], serving from 1974 to 1977. A member of the Republican Party, Ford assumed the presidency after President [[Richard Nixon]] resigned, under whom he had served as the 40th [[vice president of the United States|vice president]] from 1973 to 1974. Prior to that, he served as a member of the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] from 1949 to 1973. | ||
Ford was born in [[Omaha, Nebraska]] and raised in [[Grand Rapids, Michigan]]. He attended the [[University of Michigan]], where he played for [[Michigan Wolverines football|the school's football team]], before eventually attending [[Yale Law School]]. Afterward, he served in the [[U.S. Naval Reserve]] from 1942 to 1946. Ford began his political career in 1949 as the U.S. representative from [[Michigan's 5th congressional district]], serving in this capacity for nearly 25 years, the final nine of them as the [[House minority leader]]. In December 1973, two months after [[Spiro Agnew]]'s resignation, Ford became the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the [[Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|25th Amendment]]. After the subsequent resignation of Nixon in August 1974, Ford immediately assumed the presidency. | Ford was born in [[Omaha, Nebraska]] and raised in [[Grand Rapids, Michigan]]. He attended the [[University of Michigan]], where he played for [[Michigan Wolverines football|the school's football team]], before eventually attending [[Yale Law School]]. Afterward, he served in the [[U.S. Naval Reserve]] from 1942 to 1946. Ford began his political career in 1949 as the U.S. representative from [[Michigan's 5th congressional district]], serving in this capacity for nearly 25 years, the final nine of them as the [[House minority leader]]. In December 1973, two months after [[Spiro Agnew]]'s resignation, Ford became the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the [[Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|25th Amendment]]. After the subsequent resignation of Nixon in August 1974, Ford immediately assumed the presidency. | ||