Leslie Lynch King Jr. (1913-2006)

Leslie Lynch King Jr. (better known as Gerald Rudoph Ford Jr.) was born on the 14th July 1913 at 3202 Woolworth Avenue in Omaha, Nebraska to Leslie Lynch King Sr. (1884-1941) and Dorothy Ayer Gardner (1892-1967). His father was abusive, and his mother left him soon after his birth, and she then remarried businessman Gerald Rudolph Ford Sr. (1890-1962) - Gerald Jr. changed his name in 1935. He joined the US Navy in 1942 due to World War II, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander by the time he retired in 1946 and he then continued his career as a lawyer. On the 15th October 1948, he married divorcee, Elizabeth Anne Bloomer (1918-2011) at Grace Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Together, they had four children, Michael (1950-), John (1952-), Steven (1956-) and Elizabeth (1957-). He became involved with politics, and rose to the rank of US President in 1974, which he held for three years, until 1977. He died at his home in Rancho Mirage, California on the 26th December 2006, aged 93.