Gerald Ford was originally named Leslie Lynch King Jr. after his biological father, but his mother remarried and he took on the name Gerald R. Ford. He legally changed his name at 22 and found out at 13 that his biological father wasn’t Gerald Ford. He was never elected president or vice president and passed a thorough FBI background check. He turned down offers to play professional football to attend law school.
Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the United States, was named Leslie Lynch King Jr. when he was born. He is named after his father, Leslie Lynch King. His mother, Dorothy Gardner King, and her father divorced within six months of his birth in 1913, and she remarried in 1916 to Gerald Rudolff Ford. After marriage, Leslie Lynch King Jr. began to be called Gerald R. Ford, but he did not legally change his name until he was 22 years old. He didn’t find out that Gerald Rudolff Ford wasn’t his biological father until he was 13 years old.
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Ford is the only US president who has never been elected to the positions of president or vice president.
Ford reportedly passed the most thorough background check in Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) history before being selected as the replacement for Spiro Agnew, who had resigned as vice president under Richard Nixon.
After graduation, Ford received offers from two professional football teams, the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions, but turned them down to pursue law school.
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