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{{President

|image=Ford.jpg

|align="center" colspan="2"|[[Image:Ford.jpg|180px]]

|seq=38

|-

|term_start=August 9, 1974

!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; font-size: 120%; height: 30px; background: purple no-repeat scroll top left;"|Gerald Ford<br>

|term_end=January 20, 1977

|party=Republican

|-

|vp=None

|'''Born'''

|vp_dates=Aug.-Dec. 1974

|July 14, 1913

|2vp=Nelson Rockefeller

|-

|2vp_dates=1974-1977

|'''Died'''

|previous=Richard Nixon

|next=Jimmy Carter

|-

|office2=vice

|'''Term'''

|seq2=40

|1974-1977

|term_start2=December 6, 1973

|-

|term_end2=August 9, 1974

|'''Political party'''

|Republican

|-

|next2=Nelson Rockefeller

|'''Vice President'''

|birth_date=July 14, 1913

|None (Aug.-Dec. 1974)<br>[[Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller|Nelson Rockefeller]] (1974-1977)

|birth_place=Omaha, Nebraska

|-

|death_date=December 26, 2006

|'''Preceded by'''

|death_place=Rancho Mirage, California

|[[Richard Nixon]]

|spouse=Elizabeth Bloomer Warren

|-

|spouse2=

|'''Succeeded by'''

|religion=Episcopalian

|[[Jimmy Carter]]

}}

|-

|}

'''Gerald Rudolph Ford''' was the 38th President of the [[United States]], serving from 1974 to January 1977.  He was the only American president who was not elected to the position and was not elected Vice-President.  A [[Republican]], Ford also served as U.S. Representative, 1948-73, and was the House Minority Leader in 1964.  He major decision was to pardon former President [[Richard Nixon]] of any crimes for the good of the nation.  Nixon had appointed Ford to become Vice President and ultimately succeed Nixon.

'''Gerald Rudolph Ford''' was the 38th President of the [[United States]], serving from 1974 to January 1977.  He was the only American president who was not elected to the position and was not elected Vice-President.  A [[Republican]], Ford also served as U.S. Representative, 1948-73, and was the House Minority Leader in 1964.  He major decision was to pardon former President [[Richard Nixon]] of any crimes for the good of the nation.  Nixon had appointed Ford to become Vice President and ultimately succeed Nixon.