The nation's 38th president, and the only one neither elected to the office nor the vice presidency, died at his desert home at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday.
Ford spent most of his boyhood in Grand Rapids, Mich.
He was born Leslie King on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Neb. His parents were divorced when he was less than a year old, and his mother returned to her parents in Grand Rapids, where she later married Gerald R. Ford Sr. He adopted the boy and renamed him.
Ford played center on the University of Michigan's 1932 and 1933 national champion football teams. He got professional offers from the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers, but chose to study law at Yale, working his way through as an assistant varsity football coach and freshman boxing coach.
Information about his memorial can be found here.
Interactive site about his life can be found here.
Posted by Quality Weenie at December 27, 2006 09:43 AM | TrackBackI'm a little late with the Merry Christmas, so sue me. Just wanted to say I really, really empathize with the "laid off" comments by your family. Mine has moved from "laid off" to "Oh, you lost that job too?" What joy.
BTW, I have been working for our local "community health" (AKA mental health, free-everything-if-you-can-pretend-you're-helpless) services. I know who's voting for all the Dems. here in Virginia. They were more than happy to tell me. (sigh!)
Good luck with the job hunt.
H.
Posted by: Harrison at December 28, 2006 01:30 PM