Birth Name: Leslie Lynch King, Jr.
Date of Birth: July 14, 1913
Place of Birth: Omaha, Nebraska
Date of Death: December 26, 2006
Place of Death: Rancho Mirage, California
Ethnicity: English, some Scottish Scottish, 1/128th Polish
Gerald Ford served as the 38th President of the United States (1974-1977), as well as the 40th Vice President of the United States (1973-1974). He was the son of Dorothy Ayer (Gardner) Ford and Leslie Lynch King, Sr.
President Ford had English, and some Scottish, ancestry. Also, one of President Ford’s maternal great-great-great-great-great-grandfathers, Antoni Sadowski, was Polish.
President Ford’s paternal grandparents were Charles Henry King (the son of Lynch R. King and Rebecca Shepherd) and Martha Alicia Porter.
President Ford’s maternal grandparents were Levi Addison Gardner (the son of Alexander Gardner and Sally Miller) and Adele Augusta Ayer (the daughter of George Manney Ayer and Amy Grindley Butler).
Source: Genealogy of Gerald Ford – http://www.geni.com
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