Gerald Ford

July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006

Gerald Ford (1913-2006) was the 38th president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977. He assumed the presidency after the resignation of Richard Nixon, under whom he served as the 40th vice president from 1973 to 1974 after the resignation of Spiro Agnew. He had previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949 to 1973.

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Gerald Ford was a Michigan Republican who served in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1973 and led his party there from 1965. He also sat on the Warren Commission that investigated the Kennedy assassination.

Richard Nixon appointed him vice president in 1973 after Spiro Agnew resigned, the first use of the Twenty-fifth Amendment. When Nixon resigned over the Watergate scandal in August 1974, Ford became the only president never elected as president or vice president.

A month later he pardoned Nixon, a decision that hurt him politically. His term saw high inflation, the fall of Saigon in 1975 and the signing of the Helsinki Accords. He narrowly lost the 1976 election to Jimmy Carter. He died in 2006 at the age of 93.