biography
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Ford, Gerald R(udolph)
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| lived:
| (1913– )
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| biography:
| US statesman and 38th president (1974–7), born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He studied at Michigan and Yale universities, and served in the US Navy during World War 2. He became a Republican member of the US House of Representatives (1949–73), and on the resignation of Spiro Agnew in 1973 was appointed vice-president. He became president in 1974 when Nixon resigned because of the Watergate scandal. The full pardon he granted to Nixon the same year made him unpopular, and this, along with the economic recession of the time, led to his defeat in the 1976 presidential election by Jimmy Carter. |
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