Gerald Ford was born on 14 July 1913 in Gerald R. Ford Birthsite and Gardens. The 38th President of the United States, Ford served for decades as a Republican congressman from Michigan and became House minority leader. In 1973 he was appointed vice president after Spiro Agnew resigned, and in August 1974 he took the presidency when Richard Nixon resigned over Watergate. He is the only person to have held both offices without being elected to either. His decision to pardon Nixon a month later was controversial and probably hurt his standing with voters. His term dealt with inflation, the end of the Vietnam War and the Helsinki Accords, and he narrowly lost the 1976 election to Jimmy Carter.
Before and after
- 4 February 1913Birth of Rosa Parks
- 12 March 1913Founding of Canberra
- 30 May 1913Treaty of London
- from 29 June 1913 to 10 August 1913Second Balkan War
- 14 July 1913Birth of Gerald Ford
- 10 August 1913Treaty of Bucharest
- 16 August 1913Birth of Menachem Begin
- 31 August 1913Founding of PSV Eindhoven
- 5 November 1913Birth of Vivien Leigh
More in Wars, politics & history
- 1790Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
- from 24 June 1812 to 14 December 1812French invasion of Russia
- from 24 April 1846 to 2 February 1848Mexican-American War
- from 18 August 1866 to 10 May 1871Unification of Germany
- from 1 August 1894 to 17 April 1895First Sino-Japanese War
- from 8 October 1912 to 30 May 1913First Balkan War
The era
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