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Childhood and Education :: Gerald R. Ford: President by Succession
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Childhood and EducationGerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was born on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska, but grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He found out when he was about twelve years old that the man he thought was his biological father was actually his adoptive father. His biological father, Leslie Lynch King, had nothing to do with his son over the years. Ford was actually named after his father at birth, but his mother, Dorothy Ayer Gardner, changed his name once she married her second husband, Gerald Rudolph Ford Sr.
Ford attended local public schools before going to the University of Michigan. He played on the school’s football team and could have played for either the Detroit Lions or the Green Bay Packers after college but instead decided to go to law school. Ford worked his way through Yale Law School and received his degree in 1941. He was admitted to the bar that same year.
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