Brief Life History of Gerald Rudolph
When President Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was born on 14 July 1913, in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States, his father, Leslie Lynch King Sr, was 28 and his mother, Dorothy Ayer Gardner, was 21. He married Elizabeth Anne Bloomer on 15 October 1948, in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States. He lived in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States for about 10 years and East Grand Rapids, East Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States for about 5 years. In 1974, his occupation is listed as 38th president of the united states in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. He died on 26 December 2006, in Rancho Mirage, Riverside, California, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Kent, Michigan, United States.
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- Gerald R Ford, Jr, "United States 1950 Census"
- Gerald Rudolph Ford, "Michigan, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947"
- Gerald Rudolph Ford, "BillionGraves Index"
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World Events (8)
about 1915 · Homemade Bomb Explosion
On July 2, 1915 an angry, former Harvard professor, Erich Muenter, places a homemade bomb in the Senate Reception Room. He was upset about the private sales of US munitions to the allies during the war.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a ford (Middle English, Old English ford), or a habitational name from one of the many places called with this word, such as Ford (Durham, Herefordshire, Northumberland, Shropshire, Sussex), Ford in Sefton (Lancashire), Ford in Crediton and Ford in Holcombe Rogus (both Devon), Ford in Litton and Ford in Wiveliscombe (both Somerset).
Irish: Anglicized form (quasi-translation) of various Gaelic names, for example MacGiolla na Naomh ‘son of Gilla na Naomh’ (a personal name meaning ‘servant of the saints’), Mac Conshámha ‘son of Conshnámha’ (a personal name composed of the elements con ‘dog’ + snámh ‘to swim’), in all of which the final syllable was wrongly thought to be áth ‘ford’, and Ó Fuar(th)áin (see Foran ).
Americanized form of French Faure ‘blacksmith’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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